Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1843-09-22
THE VALLEY OF TIE MISSISSIPPI

THE VALLEY OF TIE MISSISSIPPI.
TIE Mississippi Valley is known 10y such very
crude and indie finite nnries ns the West, The
Western country, the Lake country, The South
west, the Far West by some is called the land OF
Pigs aud since, the election OF 1910, il is some
times called the Coon skin region. Its hounda-
res ON the west are the Rocky Mountains, aud
Texas; on the South the Cult of Mexico and
The Enst the Allegany Mountains; on the
North the Lakes aud British possession. II con-
iains nearly rs many squire miles us continental
Europe, and If populated MS densely Ms England
would sustain populations of fire hundred millions
OF human bpingr-inOre lhnt llhll the present
population 81 he earth. Stretching from the 26 h
TO the 49h degree of latitude it possesses great
variety of climnte. lis richness OF soil AMI extent
of iillabc land it is not sur pissed by any cuhnry
OF the same extent. Its surface is almost unbrok
en- by mounlain or hill of sulhcen, size 10 i'm
pede cultivation.
Geographically viewed Il is preemineniy n
commercial country, aud is particularly eligible
for foreign commerce. To see, rentet Tor your
sell, what the Mississippi valley is suppose YOU
90 on hoard one Of those steamboats, l. ing at The
wharf in New Orleans aud about To start for the
Upper Mississippi River. Leaving the orange
groves AMI sugar plantations OF the South. in about
len days the bunt Wi leave you NJ the Fails OF 81.
Anthony iIVeniy fire huDdrcd mules mp the Ml'siss-
ippi rlver2 If 0u think You are not lar enough
north. you eau walk round The Falls, aud, taking
another boat, ascend eigH hun,tred or thousand
miles further. On YOUR way up you VIII have
passed through many climates aud seen the ptn-
auctions of each nndrr cultivation, AMI over II
vast mining region, abuuudmg in coal, lead, irn,I,
aud copper ore, all nuhG III veins OF wonderful
richness. As you return should YOU wish TO
take peep ut the Wrs', you will lake boat ut
ST.. Louis Ii1und up The Mississippi river.
Aiier coupe of weeks or OF god hnfd
running, she Will lnnd at HE Great Falls, in Tue
country of the l}mcklOut ludiaHS iutn thirty nme
c.,sI
from New OrrhuS. Returning you would, OF
course, like to see of the tributaries of The
Missouri for this purpnse you would make ii
little excursion Of ,leren Injured miles up the
Yellowstone. OF strteen huud'ed up the Platte ana
ol iUtire hundred mites from New Orenns.-
There YOU would take beautiful boat tor the
Ohio, aid run mp that Stream to Pitislnrg one
thousand miles from the mouth OF the Ono, and
iICo thousand from New Orlrnus. You see the
urisnug iowns OF Louisville, CuirlnnaII aud
Pittsburgh, the mo>l Iuxuriaul crops Of giaus
aud grasses, iiue and numerous ilocks end here's
OF every kind you would sule 10 see the prlni-
live couirvnnces, waited on the h0snm OF the
Ohio bearing ;he products OF the Ohio valley 10
It's distant market in New Orleans; and more than
all yuu would rejoice to see the healthy, happy
smiling faces OF The people.
Before you again embarked on The Mississippi,
| you would no doulh rom three or l0ur hundred
! miles up the Cumberland, sir Seren hunired up
| the Tennessee river to what were The hueSt
| cotton regions of the valley, aud now highly cult
! waited and improved. Once more on the NJ ls,ss-
I pp, on your way downward, you would be
prompted TO shoot fifteen hundred or too thousand
miles up the Arkansas river, lIst to see where all
huse hides aud lurs come from. You would 10
doubt run two or three hundred miles up the
Yazoo, unG Two hundred or SO up The Big Black,
both in the State Of Mississippi, to see HE couli-
| tries that send out those supendpuS l0ads OF cot
! ton that you meet on The way mp; aud Just before
you reached New Orleans you would he >orey
tempted to pop thousand or fifteen hundred
n'iles up Red River to see The splendid cotton
plantations of Louisiana, and give finish 10 your
| excursion
When you get back TO New Orleans you would
have iocrably accurate idea OF what Tie MISSES
! ippi Valley is a.,d by putting the distances to
grlhcr, you will find that you travelled very com
torably by steamboat sixteen thousand miles. aud
III gong and returning, double that distance
Should curiosity lead you 10 investigate yon viii
find HAT in the Mississippi liver aud It's lrlhuta
RES, The Mississippi Valley possesses steamboat
navigation of from twenty-five to thirty thousand
miles. Such is II brief but true Biographies
glulice at the Valley. TO the uiud oi an Atlantic
o, Euro, can reader 1t may appear more OF d
"fancy sketch" than a true description Let then
not suppose that truth is violated because GU
rivers are large; we did not make Them aud are
not Responsible Tor that We have, however
pteniy Of such streams as the Hudson, the Dem
ware. ,he Poronuc The Santec the Thumes, h'
Severn, The Mcrsey, the Numbers but we do no
dignity them with the name OF rivers; we CA
them creeks or bayous. With us i! takes rve
10 make RIVER .Nut. met