Through "Whirlpool Canyon" and all the way to the Gulf, the waters dance around and about. We read of "dancing eddies or whirlpools." There are more than 600 rapids and falls in the Colorado (n. 52.)
The waters waltz their way and even furnish their own "rippling, rushing, roaring music." And we are in addition told of "innumerable cascades adding their wild music" (n. 53).
Surely the entire inlet traversed by the bore or reached by ocean tides is in precisely the condition of commotion which may well be designated by the term yuen.
We are informed that the kan (or beautiful) yuen approaches (tsih) with vapor (hi hwo) and bathes (yuh) the sun's place (ji chi su).
It is evident that the mighty stream which traverses the Great Canyon in the region beyond the Eastern Sea, should flow from a Bottomless valley to a Gulf, and reach to the Sun's Place. And we find that the current of the Colorado extends to the Tropical line of Cancer, which crosses and marks the mouth of the Gulf of California.
Vapor or fog is noticed in connection with the beautiful (even if restless or reeling) Yuen.
Are fogs a noticeable feature along the coast of California? If so, they might hide the entrance or mouth of the Gulf.
One visitor says: "Westward toward the setting sun and the sea," was a "filmy fog creeping landward, swallowing one by one the distant hills."
Again, we read of "hilltops that thrust their heads through the slowly vanishing vapor."
Here "you may bask in the sunshine of gardens of almost tropic luxuriance or shudder in fogs that shroud the coast" (n. 54.)