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The Romance of the Colorado River

CHAPTER XI
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At one place we saw some springs bubbling up from the bottom of an inlet, one of which was remarkable because of its size and power.
Its jet was five or six inches in diameter, and rose six or eight inches above the surface, the water being two or three feet in depth.

They were called Undine Springs.

At the San Rafael a heavy rainstorm came up, and presently we detected a loud roaring we could not account for.

At last, however, it was discovered to arise from the accumulated rain-water which was pouring over a near-by cliff in a muddy torrent.

The whole country was extremely bare and barren, mostly rock, and the rain gathered as on the roof of a house.


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