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By and by the steamboat intruded. Then for fifteen or twenty years, these men continued to run their keelboats down-stream, and the steamers did all of the upstream business, the keelboatmen selling their boats in New Orleans, and returning home as deck passengers in the steamers.

Harvey saw with disgust that there were no sheets on his bed-place. He was lying on a piece of dingy ticking full of lumps and nubbles.

Although normal random variables are continuous, they are often used to model discrete quantities. […] The probability density function of a normal random variable depends on two parameters, denoted μ and σ, which are, respectively, the mean and standard deviation of the random variable.