The river offers a place for the two characters, Huck and Jim, to escape from everybody and even everything in society and leaves them with a feeling of ease. In the middle section of Huckleberry Finn, the river takes on more of a concrete meaning and will be discussed more so in the paragraphs that follows. Before investigating exactly the roles that the river played in this section of the novel, I decided to actually get a dictionary definition of river before continuing.
What are the difference between CPT and CIF? As per Inco terms of shipping, CPT means Carriage paid to (named destination mentioned). CIF means, Cost, Insurance and Freight (paid up to the destination mentioned). The detailed articles on CIF and CPT with simple language have been mentioned in this web blog separately.
The cone penetration or cone penetrometer test (CPT) is a method used to determine the geotechnical engineering properties of soils and delineating soil stratigraphy. It was initially developed in the 1950s at the Dutch Laboratory for Soil Mechanics in Delft to investigate soft soils. Based on this history it has also been called the Dutch cone test. Today, the CPT is one of the most used and accepted in soil methods for soil investigation worldwide. The test method consists of pushing an instrumented cone, with the tip facing down, into the ground at a controlled rate (controlled between 1.5 -2.5 cm/s accepted).