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Show 5766 Miser -- D 3768 213 were a great many shallow places where we would have to scout around to find a deeper channel to take the boat through. Q Well, now, in finding that deeper channel, would you move the boat sideways, or would you move it forward? A In going upstream, sometime we would have to let it go back downstream a ways and then move it over to one side. These shallow places were in what you might call " cross-ing bars". The river is crooked, and the main current would be on the outside of a band. Well, when the river would change its course, and there would be a band in the opposite direction, the water would shift from one side of the stream to the other; that is, the deep water in one place would be over nest to the cliff on the other side of the bend; where the canyon wall changes, why the deep water would be on the other side. Now, between those two stretches of deep water, there would be a crossing bar, with shallow water, in many places. Q How far would the crossing bar extend across the river? A It would extend clear across, in some cases. And the water over it would be shallow. It would be in such |