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settled. Above this the land is lower and the pond spreads out 
widely over low grounds, especially about the old mouths of creeks— 
Slaughter Creek, Spring Creek, Cedar Creek, etc. 
Paint and Waxahatchie Creeks, coming in below the Narrows, and 
Slaughter, Spring, Peckerwood, Beeswax, and Bullace above the 
Narrows, are all large creeks, Waxahatchie and Cedar especially so. 
U.5. Public Health Service 
Fig. 1 .—Representative creek, bayou, and pond. Pool is the term used by the United States 
engineers for the water impounded above a lock for navigation. Note that creeks and 
branches differ only in size. 
All except Waxahatchie and Bullace have large bayous covering 
many acres. Waxahatchie runs in a gorge in the lower part of its 
course and Bullace is so far from the dam 1 that the water is not 
raised high enough there to make a large overflowed area. 
In spite of the rise of the bed of the normal river, the pond is 
much wider above the Narrows than below. The country above the 
About 20 miles. 
