 | John Palmer - 1818 - 480 pàgines
...weeds. These bottoms are subject to inundations, the banks being several feet below highwater mark. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Mississippi. Woe be to the settler who locates himself on this deleterious soil. 3. Dry prairie, bordering... | |
 | Daniel Blowe - 1820 - 788 pàgines
...and is covered in antumn with a luxuriant growth of weeds. These bottoms are subject to inundations. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and the confluence of the Mississippi. It would be unsafe for the settler to locate himself npon this soil.... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - 1822 - 706 pàgines
...six classes. 1. Bottoms, bearing a heavy growth of timber. This land is of the fir*t quality, anil is found on all the principal rivers. It varies in...prairies of the Illinois river are the most extensive i>f any east of the Mississippi, and have alone been estimated at 1,200,000 acres. This coil is not... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - 1823 - 886 pàgines
...of the first quality, and is found on all the principal rivers. It varies in width from 50 rods to2 miles, and is of inexhaustible fertility. 2. Newly...inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the river and bordering on the bottom land, but elevated from 30 to 100 feet. The prairies... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - 1823 - 532 pàgines
...rivers. It varies in width from 50 rods to two miles, and is of inexhaustible fertility. 2. Newlyformed land found at the mouths of rivers. There are many...Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the MississippiIt is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - 1826 - 550 pàgines
...rivers. It varies in width from 50 rods to two miles, and is of inexhaustible fertility. 2. Newlyformed land found at the mouths of rivers. There are many...It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. l)ry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering on the bottom land, but elevated from 30 to 100... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pàgines
...confluences of rivers, It produces sycamore, cotton-wood, water maple, water ash, elm, willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the...with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and U unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering on the bottom land, from thirty... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 626 pàgines
...confluences of rivers. It produces sycamore, cotum wood, water maple, water ash, elui, willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Walmsh, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is unhealthy.... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1834 - 356 pàgines
...confluences of rivers. It produces sycamore, cotton-wood, water-maple, water-ash, elm, willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the...the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering on the bottom land, from 30 to 100... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1834 - 336 pàgines
...confluences of rivers. It pro duces sycamore, cotton-wood, water-maple, water-ash, elm, willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wa bash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is unhealthy.... | |
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Newlyformed land found at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. 
