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Show 103 -- 99-- but was able to plow its way through. The bed of the river, I will say, at that point is so soft that the increased current at the side of the boat tends to form a channel, so that if it stays there long enough it will form a channel. Between Mile 28 and Miles 83 and 24 there is a large sandbar, which was shown at the time of the river survey in 1912, and is now grown up with willows and is now 12 feet above the river." R. 217- 218. He did not run into or get stuck on that. " At Mile 25.8 both boats made a very wide detour to avoid what Mr. Baldwin claimed were rocks out there in the river. I have never seen then, but we both made a very wide detour to avoid those rocks. Between Mile 24 and Mile 26, we had considerable trouble in finding a channel. At this point the rock walls are much wider than below, and there is an increase in the size and extent of the exposed bars." R. 218. The rock walls are much wider apart and the flow of the channel itself in wider. Wherever the channel widens out, it is naturally shallower and more exposed bars are there, making it more difficult to find the channel. There are crossing bars at Miles 24, upon which both boats had trouble. Between Miles 25 and 26, it will be noticed that at the next to the outer rock wall, where the channel is supposed generally to be, there is a large boat [ sic bar] an exposed bar, necessitating the boats going into the inner bank - just simply illustrating that every once in a while the channel will not follow the ordinary custom but will leave the outer bank." R. 218- 219 |