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Show 4637 Kirkpatrick- D 2651 Hight- water mark in the Mississippi River is to be determined from the river bed; and that only is river bed which the river occupies long enough to wrest it from vegetation. In another case ( 14 Penn, St., 59) a bank is defined as the continu-ous margin where vegetation ceases, and the shore is the sandy space between it and low- water mark. " Numerous decisions in the United States Su-preme Court and many of the state courts assert the principle that meander lines are not boundar-ies defining the area of ownership of tracts ad-jacent to waters. The general rule is well set forth ( 10 rows, 549) by saying that in a navigable stream, as the Des Moines River in Iowa, high- water mark is the boundary line. When by action of the water the river bed changes, high- water mark changes and ownership of adjoining land progresses with it. " Meander lines will not be established at the segregation line between upland and swamp or over-flowed land, but at the ordinary high- water mark of the actual margin of the river or lake on which such swamp or overflowed lands border. " 227. Practically all inland bodies of water pass through an annual cycle of changes from mean low water to flood stages, between the extremes of |