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Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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overrun its natural boundaries that we seemed at sea,instead of upon an inland river. The cottonwoods and cypresses stood up amid CHARACTKRISTICS OK THE FATHER OK WATERS. 261 the water wilderness like ghosts. Gazing into the long avenues of the sombreforests, we could see only the same level, all-enveloping flood. In the opencountry the cabins seemed ready to sail away, though their masters were usuallysmoking with much equanimity, and awaiting a fall. While we are gossiping of the river, let us consider its peculiarities and thedanger of its inundations more fully. Below the mouth of the Missouri, thegreat river takes a wholly different appearance and character from those of thelovely stream which stretches from Lake Pepin down; and some of the old pilotssay that section of it below St. Louis should have been called the Missourirather than the Mississippi. The Missouri, they claim, gives to the Father oiWaters most of the characteristics which dominate it until it has been reinforced
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The Pilot-House of the Great Republi (Page 259.) by the Ohio, the Arkansas, the White and the Red. The river is forever makingland on one side, and tearing it away on the other, the bends in its course notpermitting the current to wash both banks with equal force. The farmer on thealluvial bottoms sees with dismay his corn-field diminish year by year, acres slip-ping into the dark current; yet the ease with which corn, cotton and sugar areraised in their respective localities along its banks is such that they willingly runthe risk. The pilots complain bitterly of the constant changes in the channel,which it requires the eyes of Argus almost to detect. They say that the currentmight be made to bear more upon the rocky shores, thus avoiding disastrouslosses of land and many crevasses, as the gaps made in the levees by the l62 THE GENERAL COURSE OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER. encroaching water arc called. The stream is so crooked that a twenty milessail by water is sometimes necessary w

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