Note 8 — AMERICAN ADVENTURE.[5]

"This 'placer,' or bar, is simply the higher portion of the sandy and rocky bed of the stream which, during the seasons of high water, is covered with the rushing torrent, but was now partially or entirely exposed. This is covered with large stones and rocks, or, on the smooth sand, with clumps of stunted bushes or trees."—Sights in the Gold Regions, 177.