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Show 77 6263 4255 Ross- C It is not spread over a lot of territory, confined to a rather narrow or a normal width of stream, you have plenty of depth, don't you, depth of water for boats of the character you have seen navigated on the river? A We have we call deep people between those shallow places. Q I am not talking about shallow places. Just pay attention to my question. Where the river is of normal width, the average width, it is running through a country so it can not spread out and does not spread out over a great width, along stretch/ of the river of that character you don't have any trouble with boats of the draft you have seen used the Green river; that is true, isn't it? A That is true, yes, if the river is narrow between the banks. Q Where you encounter the difficulty with the channel is where the stream is not confined and can spread out and probably breaks up and becomes a braided channel; isn't that correct? A Yes sir. Q Now, in that situation, if a man is not familiar with the stream, if he has not been going up and down it recently so as to know just the proper ribbon of the stream to take, if you can speak of it that way, he may got fooled going down stream |