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All possessed closed compartments, fore, aft, and at the waist, that were intended to be watertight and to provide buoyancy and safe stowage for provisions and gear. No-Name were built of heavy oak and measured 21 feet in length. Carrying them around falls or lining them down rapids, the men would soon curse their bulk and weight. The fourth boat, only 16 feet long and made of pine, was light and maneuverable. This was Powell's pilot boat, which he named the Emma Dean in honor of his wife. He himself would ride in it, always going first to scout the way.

Conversation in a loud key is transformed into magical music. You can hardly believe that 'tis the echo of your own voice. In some places two or three echoes come back, in others the echoes themselves are repeated, passing forth and back across the river, for there is another rock making the eastern wall of the little park. To hear these echoes well, you must shout. Some thought they could count 10 or 12 echoes. To me they seemed to rapidly vanish in multiplicity, auditory perspective, or perauditory, like the telegraph poles on an outstretched prairie.

Of the Grand, which is today known as the Colorado, and the Green, which Powell has been descending. The name Colorado in Powell's day applied only to the combined river downstream of the junction, which lies southwest of present-day Moab, Utah. Powell had hoped to be in the more open landscape of the junction and out of the confining walls of the river canyon to observe the eclipse, but in fact he made such good time that by August 7 the expedition had passed not only the junction but Cataract Canyon, Glen Canyon, the Crossing of the Fathers, and the future site of Lees Ferry.

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