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...third day we rode some four miles upstream to one of the highest lakes. We left the stock at the lake, to feed on the meadow, and, following the trail on foot to 12,000 feet, entered the "chimney"a narrow cleft in the granite, some 150 feet wide, which extends straight up the slope for 1,000 or so feet and enables one to get through the cliffs to the upper final slope of the crest, some distance south of the summit...
...When we had penetrated upstream five or six days' journey beyond the last Indian village, we halted and searched for ancient ruins. Eight miles from the river, we discovered an old site that yielded ceremonial deposits of metates, or corngrinders, of many sizes and stone columns carved with symbols. We loaded some of the discoveries and brought them back with us, thereby increasing our navigation difficulties considerably...
...gallantly, furiously, sprinted away at the start; then Yale put up the beat and in a moment open water appeared between the shells; at the end of the race this open space was as long as two and a half shells. Both the Yale and Harvard crews broke the upstream record for the course...
...Heavy rain and a high wind which whipped up white caps on the Thames kept all the crews except the Harvard Junior University eight and the first Yale boat off the water this afternoon. During the morning Coach Haines took his University boat for a six-mile paddle, starting upstream. On the way back the first Crimson boat went over the two-mile course at a fairly low stroke. Captain Winthrop kept the beat between...
...University crew paddled three miles upstream and practiced a number of racing starts. There were no changes in its line up. The University Seconds went down stream, got a racing start, and rowed up-stream over the upper two-mile course...