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Show 4440 Marrs- D 2460 agitation. When the water comes to rest, it will settle. Any place in the river that is quiet, a bar will form. The river will settle -- the sand settle out of the water, and a bar will form. In a place where there is a bend, right- angle bend, come down the left- hand side, you would have no bar, because the water is swift against that corner. The bar that would run out from the other bank would depend on the height of water. If the water was up, it would out the bar out as it went down. Less water, it would fill up, in the part of the river where the slower channel was. Q In there bends where there is always a current, you don't mean to say the channel would change every day there, do you? A The channel for the boat; the water is so swift, you can't go up in the bend with a boat and have to come out where the boat channel is. As the water goes down, slows down, the bar forms out towards the bend, crowding you out further in the bend where the swift water is. Perhaps I misunderstood " channel". Q I am using the word " channel" the same way Mr. Blackmar is. A Do you wish me to explain the channel of the river, the path for the boat to go? |