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CHAPTER XII.
SOUNDING.
WHEN the river is very low, and one's steamboat "drawing all the water " there is in the channel,—or a few inches more, as was often the case in the old times,—one must be painfully circumspect in his piloting. We
"SOUNDING."
used to have to "sound" a number of particularly bad place almost every trip when the river was at a very low stage.
