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Show 998 for the channel, that is on the outside of the [ bend of the] river." R. 2365. " Q What about the sandbars, did you always find those in the same location in the river? " A Sandbars left by high water is invariably on the inside bend of the river; but when the river starts to go down, and the summer rains starts, they begin to cut under bars left in high water, and in other words, the high water cleans the river; it has a house- cleaning every spring. " Immediately after that the summer floods come along, and undoes the work of the high water fills the channel full of sand again that the high water has cleaned out. " Q In all the seven years you were there, traveling the river, did you over arrive at a knowledge of that river that you could follow a channel in it without getting stuck on a sandbar? " A No, not on a crossing; I can follow a channel if you have got a channel, but on a crossing you have got no channel. " THE SPECIAL MASTER: I don't understand this, at all, what you mean by channel. I want to get this clear in my mind. " I understand in a river the channel is the deepest portion of the river. Now, unless the river spreads over the entire distance from bank to bank, if there is any channel at all, I don't see how you can say there is not any channel. " A Probably I may be wrong. On the outside bend of the river your water is this way ( indicating). On a crossing it is this way( indicating). That is the best I can explain it. " The velocity of the water, and the weight of it on a bend, will carry it into a body where, when it stops that and starts to make the reverse your channel turns over on this |