Grand Falls

Sitgreaves describes Grand Falls:

"October 8 [1851], Camp No, 14.— About a mile below the last camp the river falls over a succession of horizontal ledges of sandstone, forming a beautiful cascade of one hundred to one hundred and twenty feet in vertical height, and continues on its course through a canyon of that depth, the ground level of the banks remaining the same.

Having been informed by my guide [Antoine Leroux] and other experienced trappers that this canyon extends down the river to its junction with the Colorado, and the great canyon through which the latter flows, I regarded the attempt to follow this river to its mouth as too hazardous, considering the condition of the animals and the state of the supplies, and therefore, by the advice of the guide, turned off toward the mountains, with the purpose of striking the Colorado below the great canyon, and then exploring it upward as far as might be found practicable."

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