a cool breeze being made by the boat at the bow, at Bloomer the river is 2 miles wide but lower down it is 3 miles in places, at 3 P. M. we passed thru the defile where the river runs between great forest cliffs this only 100 yds or 200 yards wide. At one point a cliff 100 feet high raised sheer crowned by a few trees of the sumac. The rock formation is gray weather limestone. There here shows considerable currents upon boiling whorls. The forest lies