 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1828 - 602 pages
...where the channel is open. It is an impediment of incalculable injury to the navigation of this noble river, and the immense extent of fine country above...population, than the country between the raft and Kiamesia. This country would be settled with great rapidity, were it not for the obstruction, which... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1832 - 656 pages
...retards the settlement of the rich and healthful country above it There is probably no part of the U. States, where the unoccupied lands have higher claims, from soil, climate, intermixture of prairiae and timbered lands, position, &C-, than the country for nearly a thousand miles above the... | |
 | American literature - 1833 - 666 pages
...noble river, and the immense country above it must suffer till it is removed. There is scarcely any part of the United States where the unoccupied lands...population, than the country between the Raft and Kimichie; it would be settled with great rapidity but for this obstruction, and so sensible are the people of... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 618 pages
...retards the settlement of the rich and healthful country above it. There is probably no part of the L'. States, where the unoccupied lands have higher claims...intermixture of prairies and timbered lands, position, &c., than the country for nearly a thousand miles above the Ruft. Steam boats would ascend to that... | |
 | Bishop Davenport - North America - 1843 - 604 pages
...where the channel is open. It is an impediment of incalculable injury to the navigation of this noble river, and the immense extent of fine country above...greater rapidity, were it not for the obstruction wliich this raft opposes to the navigation of the river. The state has made an effort to have it removed.... | |
 | Samuel Cumings - Mississippi River - 1848 - 156 pages
...impediment of incalculable injury to the navigation of this noble river, and the immense extent of country above it. There is probably no part of the...and every inducement to population, than the country above the Raft; where the river becomes broad, deep, and navigable for steamboats, in moderate stages... | |
 | Philo Tower - Enslaved persons - 1856 - 438 pages
...the immense extent of country above it. There is probably no part of the United SLAVERY UNMASKED. 285 States, where the unoccupied lands have higher claims,...and every inducement to population, than the country above the Raft, where the river becomes broad, deep, and navigable for steamboats, in moderate stages... | |
 | Uriah Pierson James - Mississippi River - 1860 - 142 pages
...impediment of incalculable injury to the navigation of this noble river, and the immense extent of country above it. There is probably no part of the...and every inducement to population, than the country above the Raft; where the river becomes broad, deep, and navigable for •teamboats, in moderate stages... | |
 | Uriah Pierson James - Mississippi River - 1860 - 280 pages
...impediment of incalculable injury to the navigation of this noble river, and the immense extent of country above it. There is probably no part of the...the unoccupied lands have higher claims from soil, clironte, intermixture of prairies and timbered lauds, position, and every inducement to population,... | |
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... country above it. There is, probably, no part of the United States where the unoccupied lands have higher claims, from soil, climate, intermixture of prairies and timbered lands, position, and every inducement to population, than the country between... 