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afternoon alcoves altitude bank barometer basalt beautiful boat box-elders Bradley brink broken caņon walls Captain Powell channel chute cliffs climb Colorado Colorado Chiquito Colorado River comes cottonwood crags creek crevice cross curve deep dinner distance drift east Emma Dean explore fall farther feet high filled foot gorge Grand Caņon granite Green Green River gulch head HORACE KEPHART hour Howland hundred feet Indians Jacob Hamblin John Wesley Powell Kanab land ledges look miles Mormon missionary morning moun mountain mouth narrow night oars overhanging park pass peaks pile pines places plateau portage Powell pull quiet rapid reach Rio Virgen river turns rocks rolls sand sandstone seems seen shelf side caņons slope soon springs stand Stone Shirt summit swift tains tell terrace thousand feet to-day Uinta Uinta Mountains valley vertical walk Wasatch Mountains waves Whirlpool