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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. 





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Fig. 44. — Little Anyui River. Third^elevated silt bank, 

 showing detail near center. Up-river trip, September, 

 1914. 



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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