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Show 3730 Clark- C 1751 as you just now related, while a given stage of water was existing there at the ferry, that didn't often happen except when there was a shifting of the condition of water and considerable dropping or rising of the river? A It happens on the falling stages. Q As the river lowered there would be bars that at the higher the progress of your boat, but when the lower stages appeared; the boat would come in contact with them and you would have to readjust; isn't that true? A Sometimes on the rising that stage. Q Let's get through -- MR. BLACKMAR: Let him finish his answer. THE SPECIAL MASTER: Yes. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q What were you going to say? A Sometimes on the rising stage a bar would keep us from going in close to the shore. These bars there would shift on different stages of the river; you never could tell when to expect them or when not to expect them. Q We will get to the rising stages in a moment; spoken about the lowering stages. When the river was in the lowering stages, as the water fell, it would become more shallow at points, wouldn't it? |
