The capes and bays formed by the devious course of the Mississippi River, &c.
1826. You hear of … planters, and sawyers, and points, and bends, and shoots.—T. Flint, ‘Recollections,’ p. 15.
1826. The entire uniformity of the meanders of the rivers in Arkansas, called in the phrase of the country “points and bends.”—Id., pp. 258–9; see also following pp.
