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HAVING read some letters lately in your paper on the subject of crossing rapid streams by means of carrying heavy stones, it strikes me that the following may be of interest to your readers. It is an extract from a survey report by Lieut, (now Major) Woodthorpe, R.E., written in 1876, describing the method, which he saw practised by men of the Nàgà tribes, for crossing a deep stream too rapid for their feeble powers of swimming, and about twenty yards wide:—
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C. Crossing Rapid Streams. Nature 22, 607 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022607e0
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