No. 14 Original, Abstract of the Testimony, vol. 2, pp. 749-1426

Abstract Testimony, V 2, p. 1076

Generally speaking , the ( 1076 10-16 ) channel is on the outside of a curve if the curve is not too long . ( R . 4253 . ) ll the curve is long the channel is sometimes on the inside . This condition happens on any curve that is more than a quarter or half a circle in length and a man who has knowledge of the river understands that characteristic . On the short curve the channel would be on the outside of the curve at any time of the year and most every year . ( R . 4254 . ) If the river is narrow between the banks he does not have any trouble with boats of draft ( he lie ) has seen used again on the Green River . Where he encounters the difficulty with the channel is where the stream is not confined ( and -and and ) can spread out and probably breaks up and becomes a braided channel . In that situation , if a man is not familiar with the stream , if ( he lie ) has not been going up and down it recently so as to know just the proper ribbon of the stream to take he may get fooled going down stream . ( R . 4255 . ) He may start down one part of the stream that seems to carry the most water there at the beginning . He may go down there for two or three hundred yards , and then there will be some ( impedi impedi- impedi ) ment like the tree that ( you k6u ) have mentioned , or any other thing , that will cause some of that water to ( flow 'flow flow ) over a shallow bar and connect with maybe the middle channel , which was a good deal smaller where he started to come down . So he will get fooled , and may take the wrong channel going down . ( R . 4255- 4256 . )