After some seventeen miles, camp for the night was made in another grove of rather small cottonwoods at 5.30.We were on a large island with the surrounding waters thick with beaver busy every moment though their great work is done at night.

Many trees felled, some of them of a considerable diameter, attested the skill and energy of these animals as woodchoppers.Cap.tried to get one so that we could eat it, but though he killed several he failed to reach them before they sank, and gave it up.
As we looked around we saw that almost imperceptibly we had entered the new canyon and at this camp (33) we were fairly within the embrace of its rugged cliffs which, devoid of all vegetation, rose up four hundred feet, sombre in colour, but picturesque from a tendency to columnar weathering that imparted to them a Gothic character suggestive of cathedrals, castles, and turrets.

The next day was Sunday and as Beaman felt sick and we were not in a hurry, no advance was made but instead Prof.accompanied by Steward, Cap., and Jones climbed out for notes and observations.

They easily reached the top by means of a small gulch.
They got back early, reporting an increasing desolation in the country on both sides as far as they could see.

They also saw two graves of great age, covered by stones.