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Show 138 -- 134-- navigation expert; and it is a technical report as to the characteristics of the river and river bed. Of course, I might have put in there one or two places that the boat got stuck, and from a technical viewpoint, perhaps they might better have been left out, except as they show the character of the bed of the river." R. 299- 300. He would say ( never having made the trip up), from his observations of the two streams, that from the mouth of the San Rafael River down to the confluence of the Green and the Colorado, thence up to Moab, the same boats, loaded in the same way, propelled in the same way, would have about the same type of sailing, and would encounter about the same difficulties. R. 300. " Q That it would be as easy to go up and down one as the other between those limits? " A I would say so. " Q Now, between the mouth of the San Rafael and Greenriver, you think it is more difficult? " A I know that it is." R. 300- 301. He had never been over that part of the stream before. " Q Do you think you could go over it a second time and avoid some of the pitfalls that you encountered on the first trip? " A Well, we had no pitfalls. We went over the Green River between the mouth of the San Rafael and Greenriver, and in the same way I would do it again, if I had to make another examination." R. 301. There was no difficulty in finding the channel, and he was sure that he found it all the time. |