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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Yes, and it's so I express them. I see them, I know, with a raccourci; but time after all rather presses, and at any rate we understand each other. Mr. Longdon, as he faltered, appeared to wonder, but emitted a sound of gentleness. "Yes?" "Why," said the stimulated Mitchy, "do, for God's sake, just let me have a finger in it." Mr.
At "Raccourci Bend" was a peninsula twenty-eight miles around and only half a mile across. Several years ago a "cut-off" was made across this peninsula, for the purpose of shortening the course of the river. A small ditch was cut, and opened when the flood was highest. An old steamboat-man once told me that he passed the upper end of this ditch just as the water was let in.
A day or two later the cut-off was three-quarters of a mile wide, and boats passed up through it without much difficulty, and so saved ten miles. The old Raccourci cut-off reduced the river's length twenty-eight miles. There used to be a tradition connected with it.
A day or two later the cut-off was three-quarters of a mile wide, and boats passed up through it without much difficulty, and so saved ten miles. The old Raccourci cut-off reduced the river's length twenty-eight miles. There used to be a tradition connected with it.
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