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RE: It is a Mark Twain kind of day here, and I'm taking it easy....
Rough translation is safe channel for a steamboat, at two fathoms (12 feet) or more....
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/mississippi.html
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oh very cool, thanks sir smithlabs.
No problem, I thought it was interesting he was a "safe channel"....
:)>Exactly. But only river boat people would know that.
I don't know, we know it...so not just riverboat people!
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