Junction of the Ohio with the Mississippi--Difficulty of Ascending the latter with a Barge--Its turbid and rapid Character--Incidents of the Voyage--Physical Impediments to its Navigation--Falling-in Banks--Tiawapati--Animals--Floating Trees--River at Night--Needless and laughable Alarm--Character of the Shores--Men give out--Reach the first fast Lands--Mineral Products--Cape Girardeau--Moccasin Spring--Non-poetic geographical Names--Grand Tower--Struggle to pass Cape Garlic. 22 Pass Cape Garlic--Obrazo River--Cliffs--Emigrants--Cape St. Comb --Bois Brule Bottom--Paroquet--Fort Chartres--Kaskaskia--St. Genevieve--M. Breton--The Mississippi deficient in Fish-- Antiquities--Geology--Steamer--…
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