You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: It is a Mark Twain kind of day here, and I'm taking it easy....View the full contextView the direct parentsmithlabs (68)in #humor • 6 years ago Sorry, take an aspirin and call me in the morning, ROFLOL! :)>
lol..so they shouted that when measuring the depth of the water like they would say to mark the number of feet? What does twain mean?
Rough translation is safe channel for a steamboat, at two fathoms (12 feet) or more....
https://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/MTP/mississippi.html
:)>oh very cool, thanks sir smithlabs.
No problem, I thought it was interesting he was a "safe channel"....
:)>Exactly. But only river boat people would know that.
I don't know, we know it...so not just riverboat people!
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