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Show 477 " As you enter the bend, curving in the opposite direction, or in other words, to the right, you can count quite confidently on finding deep water as soon as the bend begins. " It also happens on many occasions that that deep water will extend far up along the left bank of the river. In other words, where the river is curving to the right, the deep water will be in that bend along the left bank of the river, and that deep water will often extend far up into the straight reach. " Under such conditions the crossing bar frequently has a diagonal position attached to the right bank below the lower end of the channel as you come down stream, crossing the river in a diagonal direction, and attached to the left bank above the end of the deep portion of the channel, which maintains in the lower curve which curves to the right. [ R. 1221] " The main flow of the river in that upper bend curving to the left follows quite close to the right bank, but as soon as it encounters a straight reach of the river, it may begin to spill over this bar towards the left bank, and if you have a straight reach of any considerable length, the bulk of water at the lower end of that reach may be on the left- hand side of the river instead of on the right, where it started out. " This bar would ordinarily be built up during any freshet. It will occupy the same general position each year, but its form may be entirely different from year to |