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Show 333 Q Oh; then you did have navigation in mind when you drew this part of your report? A Yes, sir. Q Really, when you came to draw this exhibit was the first time when you ever had the idea of navigation in your mind, or work on this case; is that correct? A No; it depended on what type of report I was writing. Q I say that this is the first part of your report that, so far as you were aware, had any peculiar relation to navigation? A That is a report on the slopes of the river. Q That is as direct an answer to my question as you care to make, is it, Mr. Hoyt? A I think it is direct; yes, sir. Q All right. You take the rivers that you compare -- the Mississippi and the Ohio, the Missouri, the Tennessee, and the Columbia; those are rives that you take, are they not, to compare with the three rivers involved in this case; that is correct, is it not? A Well, they are all stated; I do not know whether those are all of them or not. I took the larger river on which we had profiles and official survey bulletin that I could easily obtain, and I knew were large rivers, and which are generally called navigable. Q The comparative figures that you compare in this 2297 |