Outing . it entered a channel of ditches and sloughsleading to distant dry plains which it wasconverting to fertile farm lands. Locks,control or headworks there were none, andour party, not inexperienced in engineeringemergencies nor unlearned in the ways ofthe river, spent a lengthened evening incamp nearby, in discussion and conjectureas to what pressure of necessity or overboldhaste could lead to such unguarded open-ing of the cage of a sleeping months later, we again came. 592

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