National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1867-11-08
The West.
4 Western Mans Observation =
--.AnecdOtcs and Incidents.
THE MISSOURI RIvEI


declaring that the Ohio was frozen
over one half the year and dry the
other half. But Benton told almost
the exact truth when he described
the Missouri as a little too thick to
swim in and not quite thick enough
to walk in. BY daylight the broad
current is unpoetic and repulslye-
stream of liquid brick dust or
flowing mud, studded with dead
tree trunks, broker by bars and
islands of dreary sand, and lncloSed
by crumbling shores Of naked soil.
Its water will deposit a sedimentan
eighth Of an inch thick upon the
bottom Of tumbler in five minutes.
Though at first unpalatable and
medicinal. one soon finds it a pleas
ant, healthful beverage. have
seen errant MisSourianS so partial
I to it as to urge that the pure wat
crs of the Rocky mountains were
unit TO drink because OF clealhesS'
one of the eastern passengers,
pouring out halfa pitcher full for
ablution, was utterly dlSgusted with
IT'S color in the white porcelain ba-
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"non,Tat JayIapak
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,.;,hin tbn nr.Sent limits of Wiscol
.in ,,Loso sonaw annually prcsentc
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ri ,ii''l ,.,.''., "',.' " a',ano thc Indians. an
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III HVn tl,o nhstiracv other sex. and e
- "r,. twcIvc.mnutb the appearance
The inevitable cill filed him vii
dcSpoudoncy and claGrlr' oi' VI
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mon 'onS'n' '9"v"'N 80 n,rd sio
,.;n,l '.M" ..,,ntntnnsr Sntirist transla
VS." .,s1,oIl nntatoes. an interprt
tion Which the Topeka philolgi
the INDIGNANTLY rejected.
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