Hole # 3

At a set of rapids near Murtaugh, Idaho, on October 28, 1811, the Wilson Price Hunt Expeditionencountered the most serious disaster. This accident resulted in the drowning of a boatman named Antoine Clapine and the loss of a canoe. The expedition leaders named these rapids "Cauldron Linn”. One year after as Robert Stuart traveled past the accident site he rechristened the canyon Devills Scuttle Hole.Consequently many of the early trappers referred to the stretch of canyon from Cauldron Linn to Buhl as the Devil's Scuttle. Devil's Scuttle was hence used until 1850 when the canyon was first referred to as the Snake River Canyon.The name Cauldron Linn remains as the name of the rapids near Murtaugh.