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Show 491 [ is] mile O on this exhibit. " 31/ 2 feet a short distance above, a heavy grounding at about mile 1/ 2. " 6 feet, a short distance above, 6 feet plus at mile 1. " 5 feet at mile 1 1/ 3. " 31/ 2 feet, mile 11/ 2; groundings at mile 1 3/ 4. " 6 feet, mile 2 1/ 3. " 8 feet plus at mile 21/ 2. " 3 feet, mile 3 3/ 4. " 7 feet, mile 3. " 4 feet, mile 31/ 4. " Grounding, mile 3 1/ 3. " 4 feet, mile 3 3/ 4. " 4 feet at mile 41/ 2. " Grounding just above, then 3 feet. " 8 feet at mile 5. [ R. 1240] " As a matter of fact, it took us four hours to go that five miles. " The grounding was very heavy at about mile 1/ 2, and very heavy, as I recall the point, at mile 3 1/ 3. " I think the grounding at mile 1 3/ 4 was comparatively light. " In one of those cases we had a crossing bar of the type that I first described, in other words, a crossing bar which the deep channel overlapped by a considerable distance. " We went up stream to the hand of a deep pocket and were unable to find any promising point to cross the |