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1 It was here about 100 yards wide, with shallow reaches of water, the banks rising steep-thirtyto forty feet.
2 By this means shallow reaches can be made to hold good fish, and the eddies and ripples make them easy to catch.
3 The town was an important port on that area of the Lower Shannon where canals were used to bypass the shallow reaches of the river.
4 Winding away southward, in the midst of the broad valley, the stream shone like burnished silver in the shallow reaches , or sparkled over rocky beds.
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