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Show 1035 a boat through and not necessarily the deeper part of the river. In operating this boat he did not use the deepest water because the water was too swift: " with the boat we had we couldn't make any progress; we would go down stream and head up. " BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: " Q You make progress going down stream by going in the swift water? " A The current helps you out then. " Q So that going down stream, then, the deep portions would be your channel? " A Would be the channel going down. " Q You differentiate between what the channel is coming up and the channel going down? " A Yes sir, I do." R. 2462. " BY MR BLACKMAR: " Q Can you indicate by mileage or otherwise the portions of the river, the locations of the river where you noted the greatest changes in the shifting of the sandbars? " A I don't believe I could, outside of trying to commit the channel to memory as I went by each time and remember it for the next trip: I didn't pay any attention to mileage; always used a marker on a rock, or something, to indicate where there was a bed bar; sometimes put up a few stones on the bank, if we got stuck there." R. 2462- 2463. He could tell about where the bars would be from where the river bends. Every mile or two one would be encountered and would form sort of a dam in the river and the water above would be a little higher than that below. " After we got over this bar we had good going until we would find sufficient elevation and run out of that water and |