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Show 4330 Loper- D 2350 A No sir, not me. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Why? A Because it is so evenly distributed over this sand bar; so many times there is no channel no place, even to run a row boat through. Q That is not the question. You can not discern a channel where there is no channel, but Mr. Blackmar's question was whether you could discern the channel. A No, not of a crossing. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Did these difficulties with the channel crossings and the sandbars occur frequently, that is, was it a daily occur-ence, or how often was it? A Daily, and sometimes several times a day. Q And how did you get when you got stuck on those? A Lots of times we would leave the boats standing there and wade around, try to find a deeper place than where we were, and there has been times you get up on a sandbar, you couldn't find a place; I would get around and lift the boat around like that and like that ( indicating) until I got it off; probably the sand had piled up there across the river, making a sand feef across. Q Is it more difficult to take a keel boat off a sandbar than a flat boat? |