I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through which it carries its... Missouri the Center State: 1821-1915 - Pàgina 91per Walter Barlow Stevens - 1915Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Thomas Moore - 1806 - 370 pàgines
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi. " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them: afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 348 pàgines
...CHARLEVOIX'S striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi • — " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1823 - 344 pàgines
...suggested by CHAKLEVOIX'S striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi :—" I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....much of the same breadth, each about half a league j but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1825 - 340 pàgines
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi ' I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much ui the sam? lireadth, each about hal1 a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems... | |
| James Stuart - 1833 - 568 pàgines
...discoveries in North America, and who was in America in 1724, says of this confluence of the rivers, "I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them. Afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down... | |
| James Stuart - 1833 - 632 pàgines
...discoveries in North America, and who was in America in 1724, says of this confluence of the rivers, " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them. Afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...believe this is the finest confluence in the world. Tile two livers are mucli of the same breadlh, each about half a league ; but the Missouri is by...like a conqueror, through which it carries its white \vaves to the opposite shore without mixing thorn : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi,... | |
| Edmund Flagg - 1838 - 306 pàgines
...in North America, with reference to this giant confluence, more than a century since thus writes : " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....shore without mixing them. Afterward it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea." This account,... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1840 - 394 pàgines
...dreams sublime, Which all their miracles of light reveal To heads that meditate and hearts that feel ? a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid,...white waves to the opposite shore, without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite... | |
| Thomas Moore - 1840 - 414 pàgines
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi. " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half But mind, immortal mind, without whose ray, This world's a wilderness and man but clay, Mind, mind... | |
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