THE VALLEY OF THE MISSISSIPPI.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

WHEN we survey the extensive dominion embraced by the Government of the United States, it is not without emotions of sublimity that the mind rests on the Mississippi, now acknowledged to be the greatest river of the World; nor without sensations of the beautiful, that it contemplates the fertile valley, whose thousand streams from that majestic river. If the celebrated Volney, was the first scientific traveller, who gave a general delineation of the basin of the Mississippi, it remained for American enterprize, in the progress of population towards the West, to investigate its resources, determine the extent and magnitude of its streams, and fix its boundaries.