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Show Muscle Shoals ! In 1802 the United States geo- i graphic board . decided in favor of "Muscle" Shoals. According to that authority the rapids evidently re- I ceived their name from the mimer- ij ous fresh-water mussels formerly I living among the rocks at this point in the river. At the time this re- I gion was settled "muscle" was the usual spelling of the word which we often see written as "mussel." ? Etymologically they are the same J word, both hoing derived from the f Latin "mnsculus," meaning a little mouse. |