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Show Kolb- D 828 loop. We were nearly always correct in finding a channel at that point. And Desolation canyon has more of that than any other place,-- goose- necks, they call them, where it is winding back and forward. We would pull downstream, keeping very close to the vegetation, sometimes we could reach it with the oars, because we knew that was the only channel for good, swift water, and then half a mile ahead we would see it turned to the other side of the river, and our only difficulty was in finding the channel; we connected one loop with the other, and there is every evidence that those channels fill up with silt, and the water caused by driftwood or rocks, occasional rocks or something, would be dammed up or stopped, and it would change its channel over to another place. Water always does that. Q So the channel had shifted various places between? A It is our own knowledge and supposition that the channel between these bends is continually changing, it fills up with its own silt. Q Who took the boats through cataract? A I would run one boat through -- THE SPECIAL MASTER: The witness has not used " cataracts". " Cataracts" is a term of very wide meaning. MR. BLACKMAR: I was referring to Cataract canyon. A Major Powell called those rapids cataracts because they were 2798 |