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Show 6802 Wimmer- D 4791 now, and you find it is not, what do you do? A It is just owing; there is a peculiar condition that forms those things; for instance, take, we will say, there is three channels that would leave two sandbars exposed, we will say, between them; that creates the three channels; now, they may all look alike, or two of them may all look alike; you could enter those channels, whichever one of those channels has the real current of water in it. When the other water comes against the current, it in coming this way around, that current is the strong one, it makes a stoppage of the slower current; builds up the bar all the way across there; may take up both of them; neither one of the first two you could get through, while all three look practically equal when you go down. For that reason you get up stream so much easier than you can down; you can't past this bar; when you step off of it, in one step you are in deep water. When-ever you get into the main channel again, in one step you are in deep water, but this water goes over these bars, may-be two or three inches at a time, and the other current is so strong it creates slowness; that doesn't wash the bar out; it continues across the river that way in some instances. Q In your experiences on the river have you ever found |
