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Show 85 you generally have three elevations of bars. " The pictures in that report which are numbered and referred to in the text show bars which have been surveyed. Reference is made to photograph No. 42 [ in Complainant's Exhibit No. 77] which is located at mile 84.4. R. 187. " We have here a bar perhaps 3,500 feet long, in a bend of the river, which is barely level. The river is barely below the surface. Now, this type of bar - the edge of that is constantly being cut and swept into the river, and any small rise will wash the top of this bar ( indicating). This picture ( indicating exhibit) was taken on the 11th of October, following the slight rise in which the surface has all been changed by the flood. Above that is another bar, a higher bar, whose elevation is generally from three to five feet." R. 187- 188. [ Witness is referring to Complainant's Exhibit No. 76.] Plate 33- A is where " I saw a cross section of a bar which was made at mile 80.5. There is the plan of the bar ( indicating)." R. 188. " Q What plate is that? " A Plate 31. This is a cross section across there ( indicating); this ( indicating) shows there typical conditions at the bar; they are typical conditions of the cross section. The river at this point ( indicating) is in a bend to the right. The outer part of the current follows almost a vertical rock wall. On the inside are the three bars abutting against the mass of talus which forms the extreme flood channel on the right bank. " Now, as I stated before, we have about 200 feet of |