OCR Text |
Show 958 again in the course of a few hours . This changetook a flood ( R 3760 place during . . . . . . ) At Piute Farm , , where the channel is a little over 3,000 feet wide , , the main current would shift back and forth ; it was observed to shift from some place near the middle of the channel over to the ban1t , and then back to the middle of the channel . . And when the current was over next to the banh , a great deal of the bank was washed away , They estimated that something like 75 feet of the ( -there there ) was a strip of land 75 feet wide that was washed away next to our camp . Then , when some of these changes were taking place at Piute Farms , the river did not flow with a steady current ; there were ( what wliat ) he would call ( "Pulsations Pulsations ) . " They could look upstream and see a splashing wave coming down the river . This splashing wave was at the ( front froat ) of fairly deep ( w"ater water ) . When this deep water would come , the river would be about a foot higher than it would a few hours later . In other words , the river flowed in surges ; ; on the crest of one of those surges logs would be transported downstream , and all the islands in the channel would be concealed ; in the troughs between the surges , , the islands would appear and the logs would mire in the sand . . ( R . . 3760-3761 . ) By the word " ( channel" channel ) he means the width of the river froin banh to bank , and when he speaks of the current he means the deeper part of the channel . . ( R . . 3761-3762 ) He ( didn't didnt ) observe the depth of the channel at that place . |