The boat took many such grassy corners
(шлюпка подходила ко многим подобным участкам реки, с покрытыми травой /берегами/;The boat took many such grassy corners and followed many such reedy and silent reaches of river; but before the search had become monotonous they had swung round a specially sharp angle and come into the silence of a sort of pool or lake, the sight of which instinctively arrested them.