No. 14 Original, Abstract of the Testimony, vol. 1, pp. 1-748

Abstract Testimony, V 1, p. 0112

( He Re ) saw the river every 112 ( year year- year ) during the forty ( years 'Years Years ) he lived at Bluff and he lived right near the river . ( R . 409-410 . ) The river varies so ; some places it is scattered out wide and other places it is ( confined con-fined confined ) in a narrow channel , and you ( couldn't couldnt ) hardly take a guess at it , but wherever ( lie he ) has forded it and the river is fairly well confined , it has been from two to four feet . ( R . 410 . ) During the forty years ( he lie ) lived there ( he lie ) has forded the river many times during low water some years . He ( doesn't doesnt ) suppose there was a year that he lived there that he did ( not -not not ) ford the river . He has gone over the . river on horseback where there were wide stretches up and down for a ( mile inile ) or two near Bluff where the river spreads out . Some places it is five hundred feet wide and has occurred since he went to Bluff . At these wide ( places Waces ) where he has forded the river there were times when he did not go through water that was two or three feet deep . It , has been spread out wide enough so that it ( wouldn't wouldnt ) be that deep , ( but biit ) it would be on a ford . ( R . ( 411-412 41-1-412 ) . ) The ford ( wasn't wasnt ) on the shallowest place as it is shallower where it spreads out and they usually ( didn't didnt ) try to ford there on account of the quicksand . He ( couldn't couldnt ) tell what is the ( shal- shal ) lowest water he has ever forded when he has gone across the San Juan . ( R . 412 . ) He has forded . it ( sometimes sometinies ) when it came up just about to the ( horse's horses ) , knees or about two feet high , but that is not the lowest he has ever seen it . ( R . 412-413 . )