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Show 4638 Kirkpatrick- D 2652 which will be found mean high water. In regions of broken topography, especially where bodies of water are bounded by sharply sloping lands, the horizontal distance between the margine of the various water elevations is comparatively slight, and the survey or will not experience much difficulty in determining the horizontal position of mean high- water level with approximate accuracy; but in level regions, or in any locality where the meanderable bodies of water are bordered by relatively flat lands, the horizontal distance between the successive level is relatively great. The survey or will find the most reliable indication of mean high- water elevation in the evidence made by the water's action at its various stages, which will generally be found well marked in the soil, and in timbered localities a very certain indication of the locus of the various important water levels will as found in the belting of the native forest species. " Mean high- water elevation will be found at the margin of the are occupied by the water for the greater portion of each average year; at this level a definite escarpment in the soil will generally be traceable, at the top of which is t he true position for the survey or to run the meander line. A pronounced escarpment, the result of the action of storm |