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Show 208 Mr. Farnsworth. There may be a difference of opinion as to what constitutes rapids and where rapid water and rapids merge into each other; so that when you have designated them on a map like that ( indicating), there might be some difference of opinion as to what you would call it. But the profile survey showing the drop would show how far, or how difficult naviga-tion was at that point, leaving out the question of rocks. I mean it would show the descent and the rapidity of the water. Whether you would call it rapid water or rapids, I suppose, depends on who is calling it. Mr. Farnsworth: I think that is true, your Honor. The Special Master: I think I understand what the witness means by that map, and I do not think that I should give any undue weight to his designation, or his marks, if we have the profiles there to show what is meant by the marks. Mr. Farnsworth: I just want to make this suggestion, which will indicate my thought: The original maps are on file. They give this data themselves. Now, this witness has never been there, and has no right to make a composite of some maps of other men who have been there; and yet he is trying not only to draw new maps and bring them in here, but then paint a picture and get a lot of index figures on there that will reflect certain ideas that are in issue in this case. We are just as well qualified, except that we are not engineers; but I do not see why we are not just as well qualified to present a picture 2171 |