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A Canyon Voyage

Chapter 37: Transcriber's Notes
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About This Book

A first-person account of a government-backed second descent of the Green-Colorado River, documenting travel through a succession of deep canyons and the overland surveys that filled large blanks on contemporary maps. The narrative combines daily camp life and river navigation with systematic work: topographic plats, hypsometric and hydrographic measurements, geological notes, photographs, and ethnographic observations. Drawing on diaries, letters, and field sketches, the author reconstructs the expedition’s methods, corrections to earlier charts, and the practical challenges of river exploration while providing numerous illustrations and guidance useful to future travelers and surveyors.

Transcriber's Notes

The original contained inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation. The following variations were retained:

  • air-line, airline
  • arm-chair, armchair
  • arrow-heads, arrowheads
  • ball-room, ballroom
  • bow-knot, bowknot
  • near-by, nearby
  • row-lock, rowlock
  • sand-bank, sandbank
  • school-house, schoolhouse
  • ship-shape, shipshape
  • south-westerly, southwesterly
  • up-stream, upstream
  • Clarkson, Clarkston
  • Frémont, Fremont
  • Konéco, Koneco
  • De Motte, DeMotte

The following typographical errors in the original were corrected:

  • Pg 62: "eaving" to "leaving" ("leaving us hardly a rock")
  • Pg 175: "bame" to "came" ("came to the edge")
  • Pg 198: added "of" ("like the roof of a house")
  • Pg 220: "bat-battened" to "battened" ("hatches firmly battened")
  • Pg 229: "dashig" to "dashing" ("water was dashing")
  • Pg 250: "prononnced" to "pronounced" ("in their language pronounced")
  • Pg 273: "Canyon" to "Kanab Canyon" ("Kanab Canyon, Journey up")