 | 1850 - 918 דפים
...elevation sufficient to inundate this entire region. The last vernal freshet, which was lower by a^out four inches than the flood just mentioned, is represented...tendencies of the Mississippi and Arkansas to form a new junction more or less remote from Napoleon; among the consequences of which an effectual seclusion... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 630 דפים
...below the common surface level, •which last nowhere rises beyond the reach of the highest floods of the two rivers. The flood of 1844 is said to have...tendencies of the Mississippi and Arkansas to form a new junction, more or less remote from Napoleon, among the consequences of which an effectual seclusion... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 912 דפים
...depressions below the common surface level, which last nowhere .rises beyoud the reach of the highest floods of the two rivers. The flood of 1844 is said to have...not only on account of the overflows to which it is exposfd, and the deleterious effects occasioned thereby, but on account of the tendencies of the Mississippi... | |
 | 1849 - 922 דפים
...elevation sufficient to inundate this entire region. The last vernal freshet, which was lower by about iour inches than the flood just mentioned, is represented...circumstances, I cannot but regard the site selected for thi« hospital as objectionable, not only on account of the overflows- to which it is exposed, and... | |
 | 1851 - 664 דפים
...last vernal freshet, which was ver by about four inches than the flood just mentioned, is representas having overflowed this entire district. Under such...circumstances, I cannot but regard the site selected for is hospital as objectionable, not only on account of the overflows to lich it is exposed, and the deleterious... | |
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Mississippi, consists almost entirely of alluvial grounds, for the most part densely wooded, and occasionally presenting lagoons, pools, and other depressions below the common surface level, •which last nowhere rises beyond the reach of the highest... 