 | Andrew Ellicott - Florida - 1803 - 508 pages
...from them, and commonly terminate by a gentle declivity in a swamp: this is the case the whole length of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio, to the gulf of Mexico : hence some superficial observers, have been led to believe, that the river passes along the top of... | |
 | United States - 1850 - 918 pages
...Arkansas, about ninety miles above Napoleon, as far more eligible in many if not in all respects for the contemplated hospital, than any other position...the margin of the Mississippi within the limits of vhat State. This is, in fact, the only point on the westerly side of the Mississippi, from the month... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1854 - 676 pages
...as to the duration of their promised friendship, if they once extended their empire to the left bank of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Some sudden and unexpected cause of quarrel might easily occur from the very proximity of the two flags,... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1854 - 674 pages
...as to the duration of their promised friendship, if they once extended their empire to the left bank of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Some sudden and unexpected cause of quarrel might easily occur from the very proximity of the two flags,... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1867 - 680 pages
...to the. duration of their promised friendship, if they once extended their empire to the left bank of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Some sudden and unexpected cause of quarrel might easily occur from the very proximity of the two flags,... | |
 | Andrew Atkinson Humphreys - Mississippi River - 1867 - 242 pages
...estimated, by those who observed it, to be even greater than that of the Mississippi. Now the mean velocity of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the gulf, at the top of such a flood as that of 1858, is 6 feet per second.! It may then be assumed that the... | |
 | Archibald Geikie - Geology - 1882 - 996 pages
...geological history, during which those deposits were formed, the Terrace Epoch. The modern alluvium of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico covers an area of 19,450 miles, and has a breadth of from 25 to 75 miles and a depth of from 25 to... | |
 | Charles Gayarré - Louisiana - 1885 - 674 pages
...as to the duration of their promised friendship, if they once extended their empire to the left bank of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Some sudden and unexpected cause of quarrel might easily occur from the very proximity of the two flags,... | |
 | Augustus J. Thébaud - France - 1904 - 404 pages
...words of explanation. What are here called the Southwestern States are those which lie on both sides of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico. Two remarkable facts struck me at once. The first was an apparently unbroken forest covering the whole... | |
 | United States. Congress Senate - Florida - 1908 - 184 pages
...it to Mr. Gallatin, he writes as follows: "/ have forwarded, by the bearer, Captain Duane, the m.ap of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio to the gulf of Mexico, to -which is added the south boundary of the United States, and the whole of West Florida. In examining... | |
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... otherwise would inevitably be brought about by violence ?" — Such was the language of the United States, but it failed to obtain from Spain the boon which they craved. She, probably, had some misgivings as to the duration of their promised friendship,... 
