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Show 68 6254 4246 Ross- C Q Why? A Why? Q Yes. A You get a system, you get a rule for laying out your channel. for picking out your channel. Q You learn things from that experience that enable you to avoid difficulties in navigation, do you no? A Yes sir. Q And the more experience you have on either one of those rivers, and the better and more recent knowledge you have of either, the more readily you will be able to navigate? A Yes sir. Q And the fewer difficulties you will have? A Yes sir. Q Is it not a fact, Mr. Ross, that the high spring water, that is, the high water that comes from melting of snows in the spring of each year, scours the channel of these rivers, cleans them out? A It cleans them out in places and builds tremendous big bars in other places at the same time. Q You wish to be understood as saying that the spring -- ordinary spring high water -- I am not talking about occasional floods, I mean that comes each season causes the creation of sandbars at various points in the river? |