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Show 3280 Dent- 1305 with this same fall, the bars would form more slowly? A During the low water period, when the volume is small-- Q I am not taking about volume; I am talking about velocity, alone. A The average velocity will be less during the low water period. Q I am putting a hypothetical case at present. Supposing you had the same volume of water, loss velocity, I under-stand the bars would form more slowly with the same fall, the same volume of water but less velocity. A That would inherently require, your Honor, that the river have more width and less depth. Your assumption includes that assumption. Q The formation of bars is a question of deposit of sediment. A If the river has the same volume of water, same slope, and less velocity, then it is an inexorable law it have less depth and more width. Q What I want to get at is, granting the same drop in the river, which do you get the greatest deposit of sand from, a swiftly or slow moving stream? A A swiftly moving stream moves the sediment more readily, of course, than a slow moving stream. It moves it in places and then automatically drops it in eddies and points where, for some reason, it is possible for it to do so. I use and entirely different description of that, |