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Show 144 -- 140-- brought in. " The Auger Bar and riffle is a riffle at the mouth of a wash where the sediment is brought in and forces the channel over. I would say, sir, that there is no degree of permanence or stability in the channel. The fact that a bar may be there does not, in my estimation, indicate that it is stable." R. 312. [ By the Special Master] " Q Is there not always some relation between the bar and the channel; if the bar is stable, can the channel always be unstable? " A Well, the bars are not stable. " Q Of course, stability is a comparative word. But I mean if in each year for twenty years you find a bar at approximately the same place, is not the channel likely to be approximately in the same place? " A No, sir. " Q It is not? That is what I wanted to get at. " A You see, it depends again on the different type of bars. I say that, with the crossing bar, in all probability the channel would be at the same place. " Q That is, the channel may cross the bar at any point, although the bar may always be there? " A The bar may always be there. " Q That would be true as to the crossing bar? " A That would be so as to the crossing bar. " Q But many of these other types of bar, for instance the Butterfly Bar, which is a bar the length of the river, where the channel is on both sides - and the channel appears on both sides in 1909 and 1928 - |