 | Francis Wyse - 1846 - 482 pàgines
...cottonwood, water-maple, water-ash, elm, willow, oak, &c. 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 upon this soil.... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - 1851 - 618 pàgines
...water ash, elm. willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the moutli of tl¡" Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with 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 Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pàgines
...at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousands of acres of this land at the moyth of the W abash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi....inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers, and bordering on the bottom-land, but elevated from 30 to 100 feet. The prairies... | |
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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. 
