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Show 4329 Loper- D 2349 river starts to make the reverse curve, the channel has got to change from the outside of the first loop across the river to the outside of the next loop, so in this crossing the channel spreads out. That is where you have your difficulties in navigating these rivers, because you have got no channel. It spreads out evenly over this shifting channel. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Ordinarily going down this river or any curving river I suppose you would expect to find the channel on the outside of the loop, would you, and you ordinarily would find it there, wouldn't you? A Yes sir, ordinarily find it there. Here is a condition, you get a loop like this, your channel is on the outside, there is a big rock here ten or fifteen feet square, lost of times we will shoot the channel clear across to the other side of the river. Q That is a thing you could observe? A You can observe the rock, yes, and naturally see the channel going over, and probably in going across it may spread out and make a crossing of its own, right there. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q In making these channel crossings, in going across them, is it possible for a boatman to discern the deepest water by observation? |