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Show power and he had trouble 497 getting on bars ( vithit- vithit ) ( R . 1729-1730 . ) He ( didn't didnt ) experiment with ( any any- any ) more boats . The engine in the first boat would develop about sixteen horsepower and had a ( three-blade threeblade ) ( screw screw- screw ) propeller , but ( he lie ) never hauled any passengers up to Rainbow Bridge as he abandoned the enterprise -- ( figured figu-red figured ) it was impossible , as when the river was at a high stage ( he lie ) found the current was so swift he , ( couldn't couldnt ) develop enough power to force the boat upstream , and in low water when he had the power to go upstream the sand bars would bother him so much he ( couldn't couldnt ) make it . ( R . 1731-1732 . ) He has observed the sand bars in the river at Lees ( Perry Ferry ) where he ran a ferryboat for about one . and a half years , and lots of times the bars would form in half an hour or an ( hour's hours ) time and when . he would go back across [ the river ] the bars would be cut out . ( R . 1732 . ) : This prevented the ferryboat from getting in to the bank , as lots of times the bars ( would woula ) hold the boat as far as fifty feet out from the bank , ( pre-- pre ) venting navigation across the river , requiring him to put in the boat so as to throw the water in and cut the bars out . This would hold him up ( any-- any ) where from ( one-half onehalf ) to ( three-quarters threequarters ) of an hour ; and sometimes they were not able to do that , but would have to go across the bar if the water was shallow enough , and at times take the boat off the cable , follow the channel up the river around the ( 33307-31-yor 3330731yor ) . 1-82 |