 | Robert Sears - 1854 - 668 sider
...and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest theatre for the diffusion of its use, and the display of its power. Wonderful river, connected...the head and by the mouth — stretching its arms toward the Atlantic and the Pacific — lying in a valley, which is a valley from the gulf of Mexico... | |
 | United States. Post Office Dept - 1864 - 234 sider
...almost accomplished by nature herself, and wanting from man little to complete it. These were probubly the first formal communications upon authentic data...mouth, stretching its arms towards the Atlantic and the Pacific—lying in a valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson's bay—drawing its... | |
 | Greville John Chester - 1869 - 432 sider
...navigation of the Great West is the most wonderful on the globe, and since the application of steam-power to the propulsion of vessels, possesses the essential...stretching its arms towards the Atlantic and the Pacific — borders of vast tracts of the richest land in the world for agricultural purposes, close to almost... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - 1870 - 138 sider
...in the Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest theater for the diffusion and the display of Ks power. Wonderful river ! Connected with seas by the head and by the mouth, stretching its arms toward the Atlantic and the Pacific, lying in a valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - 1871 - 218 sider
...steamboat is the ship of the river, and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest theater for the diffusion and the display of its power. Wonderful...by the head and by the mouth, stretching its arms toward the Atlantic and the Pacific, lying in a valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to... | |
 | None - 1873 - 130 sider
...the river, and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest theatre for the diffusion and display of its power. Wonderful river ! connected...by the head and by- the mouth ; stretching its arms toward the Atlantic and the Pacific; lying in a valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to... | |
 | L. U. Reavis - 1875 - 1110 sider
...the river, and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest theatre for the diffusion and display of its power. Wonderful river! connected with...by the head and by the mouth, stretching its arms toward the Atlantic and the Pacific, lying in a valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to... | |
 | Robert Sears - 1876 - 664 sider
...and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest theatre for the diffusion of its use, and the display of its power. Wonderful river, connected...the head and by the mouth — stretching its arms toward the Atlantic and the Pacific — lying in a valley, which * is a valley from the gulf of Mexico... | |
 | 1881 - 246 sider
...description given of this river by our former great Senator, Mr. Benton, many years ago, in which he says : '-Wonderful river! connected with seas by the head...valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico to Hudson Bay ; drawing its first waters not from rugged mountains, but from the plateau of the lakes... | |
 | William Mosley Hall, Horace Greeley, Thurlow Weed - 1882 - 214 sider
...river, and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries the amplest theatre for the diffusion of its use and the display of its power. Wonderful river! Connected...the head and by the mouth — stretching its arms toward the Atlantic and the Pacific — lying in a valley which is a valley from the Gulf of Mexico... | |
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... essential qualities of open navigation. Speed, distance, cheapness, magnitude of cargoes, are all there, and without the perils of the sea from storms and enemies. The steamboat is the ship of the river, and finds in the Mississippi and its tributaries... 