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current cuts away the unconsolidated alluvium of the outer bands (here gener- 
ally from 10 to 20 feet high), depositing the material removed in the shape of 
extensive bars on the inner curves below. 
Fic. 44.—Little Anyui River. Third elevated silt bank, 
showing detail near center. Up-river trip, September, 
IQl4. 
These bars are generally quite boggy on the water’s edge and mostly covered 
with driftwood piles and a rich verdure of equisetum—now swiftly dying or 
already dead—upon which the numberless swarms of wild geese have been 
fattening that are now gathering together to return to the South. 
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