RE: It is a Mark Twain kind of day here, and I'm taking it easy....

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It is a Mark Twain kind of day here, and I'm taking it easy....

in humor •  5 years ago 

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"....

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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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