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Show 300 nation that you care to make as to why your report confined itself, apparently, to the few difficulties that are mentioned in your report? A Well, It is a technical report, and I expect my examination was not-- I am not a navigator. I am not a navigation expert; and it is a technical report as to the characteristics of the river and river bed. Of course, I might have put in there one or two places that the boat got stuck, and from a technical viewpoint, perhaps they might better have been left out, except as they show the character of the bed of the river. Q Well, all right. Is that all the explanation you care to make? A I think that is all. Q Now, as L understand you, you expressed the conclusion, from your observations of these two streams, that from the mouth of the San Rafael river down to the confluence of the Green and the Colorado, and thence up to Moab, the same boats, loaded in the same way, propelled in the same way, would have about the same type of sailing, and would encounter about the same difficulties? A I would say so, yes, sir; never having made the trip up, I would not-- Q That it would be as easy to go up and down one as the other between those limits? A I would say so. Q Now, between the mouth of the San Rafael and Green- river, 2263 |
