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BAYOU (pronounced bai-yoo, probably a corruption of Fr. boyau, gut)

BAYOU (pronounced bai-yoo, probably a corruption of Fr. boyau, gut) , an " ox-See also:

BOW (pronounced " bo ")

bow " See also:

lake See also:

LEFT

left behind by a See also:

RIVER

river that has abandoned its old channel in the See also:

LOWER

lower stages of its course. See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

Good examples are found in See also:

PALMYRA

Palmyra Lake, in the See also:

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi valley below See also:

VICKSBURG

Vicksburg, and in Osage river, See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri. As a river swings from See also:

side to side in a See also:

SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of curves which widen laterally where the current is slow and the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country more or less level, there is a tendency in See also:

flood times for the See also:

WATER

water to impinge more strongly upon the See also:

CONVEX

convex See also:

BANK

bank where the See also:

CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

curve leaves the See also:

main channel. This bank will be eaten away, and the See also:

PROCESS

process will be repeated until the See also:

BASE

base of the " See also:

ISTHMUS (Gr.io0pbs, neck)

isthmus " is cut through, and the descending channel meets the returning curve, which is thus left stranded and filled with dead water, while the stream runs directly past it in the shorter course cut by the flood See also:

WATERS, TERRITORIAL

waters that deepen the new channel, and leave an isolated ox-bow lake in the old curve.

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