...vol. ii, p. 98. " The hateful Mississippi — what words shall describe the great father of waters, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him ! An enormous ditch, running liquid mud six miles an hour !"— Dickens, p. 64. " If there be an excess of mental luxury...

...place without one single quality, inearth or air or water, to commend it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi , great...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees : now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy lazy foam works...

...place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees : now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy lazy foam works...

...Mississippi) $ill not thank Mr. Dickens for the following striking but repulsive portraiture: — • But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles au hour: its strong and frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by liuge logs and whole forest...

...place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to cornmead it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi , great...(praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him! AD enormous ditch , sometimes two or three miles wide , running liquid mud, six miles an hour: its...

...pleasure ? We have an engraving which will just suit his true description of the Mississippi river. " Box what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father...ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid-mud six miles an hour ; its strong and frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by huge...

...thanking Heaven all the way, that he (the Mississippi,) " had no young children like himself" — " an enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud six miles an hour ;" having stopped at the Planter's House in St. Louis, " built like an English hospital, with long...

...vol. ii, p. 98. " The hateful Mississippi — what words shall describe the great father of waters, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him ! An enormous ditch, running liquid mud six miles an hour !" — Dickens, p. 64. " If there be an excess of mental luxury...

...place without one single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it : such is this dismal Cairo. But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great...sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six milea an hour : its strong and frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole...

...single quality, in earth or air or water, to commend it : /such is this dismal Cairo. But what Y°r(ls shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers,...obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees : now twining themselves together in great rafts, from the interstices of which a sedgy lazy foam works...