[PRCo] Re: Feeling a little too hot and humid?

[robert netzlof]

--- Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:

> Samuel Clemens wrote under the pen name Mark Twain.   Same guy,  
> Boris.   He was a former Mississippi River captain before the Civil
>  
> War.   The expression Mark Twain was a term meaning an adequate
> river  
> depth for sailing ... I'm not exactly sure how many fathoms or feet

>From "Life on the Mississippi":

Mark twain is two fathoms.
Quarter twain is 2 1/4 fathoms, 13 1/2 feet.
Mark three is three fathoms.


Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob


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