Commentary for Bava Kamma 121:11

דרך הרבים: מאן תנא אמר רבא ר"א היא דתנן רבי אליעזר אומר שש עשרה אמות כדרך רה"ר (פטור):

applies only where it was rising in a column; if it was creeping along, and wood happened to be in its path, there would be liability were it even to pass over a public ground of about the width of a hundred <i>mil</i>.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' I.e., two thousand cubits; v. Glos. ');">¹⁷</span> If, however, it crossed a river or pool eight cubits wide, there would be exemption.

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