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Show 78 6264 4256 Ross- C A Yes Q he may stars down one part of the stream that seems to carry the most water there at the beginning-- A Yes sir. Q May go down there for two or three hundred yards, and then there will be some impediment like the tree that you have mentioned, or any other thing, that will cause some of that water to flow over a shallow bar and connect with maybe the middle channel, which was a good deal smaller where he started to come down? A. Yes sir. Q Coming up he is in much better position to see which is the right channel, isn't he? A Usually he can see better from the lower side. Q Of course, if he has been up and down there recently, so he knows from experience which is the proper channel, he is in still better shape, isn't he? A Yes sir. Q When you take an initial trip down and come to a place in the river such as I have just described, get down two or three hundred yards before the part of the stream your boat is in starts to go over a shallow bar into one other section of |