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Show 1033 straight behind, you can make progress against the current. According to his observation, the channel was never the same from one week to another. He would make one trip and on the next would find dozens of bars in places where they had gone over before, depending on where a flood had gone by recently, or where there had been a sudden rise, or just a low rise in the water, the channels and bars would wash out. A quarter of a mile down on the other side, " you may find a different condition." R. 2459 He does not mean that the channel in the river is never the same at any place. " If the river is narrow enough to carry a current, swift enough to keep the bar cut out. If you set a five- gallon can of water out all night it will settle, showing the matter that is in the water is held there in a state of agitation. When the water comes to rest, it will settle. Any place in the river that is quiet, a bar will form. The river will settle- the sand settle out of the water, and a bar will form. " In a place where there is a bend, right- angle bend, come down the left- hand side, you would have no bar, because the water is swift against that corner. The bar that would run out from the other bank would depend on the height of water. If the water was up, it would out the bar out as it went down. " Less water, it would fill up, in the part of the river where the slower channel was. " Q In these bends where there is always a current, you don't mean to say the channel would change every day there, do you? " A The channel for the boat; the water is so swift, you can't go up in the bend with a boat and have to come out where |