 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1828 - 828 pages
...mouth of the Ohio, a medial width of little more than three quarters of a mile. This mighty tributary seems rather to diminish, than increase its width...one point to the other, except at the rapids of the Des Mointi, there is four feet water in the channel, at the lowest stages. Below the Missouri, from... | |
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1828 - 602 pages
...mouth of the Ohio r a medial width of little more than three quarters of a mile. This mighty tributary seems rather to diminish, than increase its width;...one point to the other, except at the rapids of the Des Moines, there is four feet water in the channel, at the lowest stages. Below the Missouri, from... | |
 | Wellington Williams - Canada - 1850 - 588 pages
...furioua and boiling current, a turbid and dangerous mass of waters, with jagged and dilapidated shores. Its character of calm magnificence, that so delighted the eye above, is seen no more. A little below 39°, on the west side, comes in the mighty Missouri, which, being longer, and carrying... | |
 | Wellington Williams - United States - 1851 - 596 pages
...furious and boiling current, a turbid and dangerous mass of waters, with jagged and dilapidated shores. Its character of calm magnificence, that so delighted the eye above, is seen no more. A little below 39°, on the west side, comes in the mighty Missouri, which, being longer, and carrying... | |
 | Uriah Pierson James - Mississippi River - 1860 - 280 pages
...and, wherever its waters have receded, deposits of mud. It remains a sublime object of contemplation; but its character of calm magnificence, that so delighted the eye above, is seen no more."* The surface of the river is covered with huge boils or swells, which render it a matter of considerable... | |
 | T. ADDISON RICHARDS - 1857 - 272 pages
...furious and boiling current, a turbid and dangerdus mass of waters, with jagged and dilapidated shores. Its character of calm magnificence, that so delighted the eye above, is seen no more. A little below 39°, on the west side, comes in the mighty Missouri, which, being longer, and carrying... | |
 | Scientific and technical reader - Science - 1869 - 408 pages
...furious and boiling current, a turbid and dangerous mass of waters, with jagged and dilapidated shores. Its character of calm magnificence, that so delighted the eye above, is seen no more. No one who descends the Mississippi for the first time receives dear and adequate ideas of its grandeur,... | |
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... character. It is no longer the gentle, placid stream, with smooth shores and clean sandbars; but has a furious and boiling current, a turbid and dangerous mass of sweeping waters, jagged and dilapidated shores, and, wherever its waters have receded,... 