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Show 776 " Then it was easy going in to Lees Ferry. " That was the end of the second day from Flagstaff. " The next day we put on this load on the boat, decking it up as far as we could carry it with supplies for the men doing the topographic work in connection with the survey, and we made about fourteen miles, I think, the first day. " Quite a few times we got out on the banks and helped tow the boat, to make times; it could just hold its own against the current. That was just a swift stream there; there were no rapids or riffles in that part of the stream -- yes, just before nightfall we struck a riffle, and tried to make it and couldn't, and dropped back down the river, and stayed over night just below the riffle. " Q. In that fourteen miles did you encounter any sandbars? " A. Not what I call sandbars; we struck bottom every now and then; that was on account, you might say, of poor navigation. If we had shifted over a little bit, we probably would not have struck bottom." R. 1851- 1853. The location of the bar or shoal that caused the boat to drop back is about eleven and three- quarters of a mile above Lees Ferry. R. 1853- 1854. " THE SPECIAL MASTER: The witness is testifying in connection with Exhibit 10, sheets A and following." R. 1854. The next morning a reconnaissance was made, and it was found to be much easier to go on the south bank of the river, rather than take the main channel, as the bar or riffle stretched |