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The Romance of the Colorado River

CHAPTER XIV
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As a soldier he was a patriot, as an explorer he was a hero.

As a far-seeing scientific man, as an organiser of government scientific work, as a loving, friendly, and a delightful comrade whether by the camp-fire or in the study, and as a true sympathiser with the aspirations and ambitions of subordinates or equals, there has seldom been his superior.
APPENDIX In the Marble and Grand Canyons the fall is as follows.* The vertical dotted lines of diagram on page 57 give these divisions, beginning at the left with 2.
* After Dutton, Tertiary History, p.

240.
DISTANCE FALL FALL IN IN IN MILES FEET FEET PER MILE I.Marble Canyon...........................65.2-----510-----7.82 2.

Little Colorado to the Granite..........18.2-----110-----6.04 3.

Granite Falls...........................10-------210----21.
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