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DARRELL H. DAVIS 



points being located accurately, and the width of the stream measured 

 carefully in many places. 



At the present time, the river has cut through the old deposits and 

 has regraded its floor so that the deposits stand out eight feet thick 

 at the dam and thin out to nothing half a mile up stream. 



Assuming that the floor of the pond is level, and it must be 

 very nearly level when we consider that the top of the waste weir is 



Fig. 5. — View down the river taken from bluffs at the head of the old mill pond. 



only eleven feet above the bed of the stream and the silt reaches to 

 within three feet of its top, we can see that when the dam gave way 

 the river was flowing on a nearly level surface, certainly more nearly 

 level than any other portion of the flood plain in the vicinity. It 

 immediately began to cut into this deposit, however, and soon had a 

 fall in half a mile of a trifle more than the thickness of the deposits, 

 or something over ten feet. 



To have been there and seen the events as they actually occurred 

 would have been exceedingly interesting. Nothing could be learned 



