 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...found at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, near the rivers, bordering on the bottom land, but elevated from 30... | |
 | Sidney Edwards Morse - Atlases - 1822 - 706 pages
...found at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, near the rivers, bordering on the bottom land, but elevated from 30... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse, Richard Cary Morse - Geography - 1823 - 886 pages
...found at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the river and bordering on the bottom land, but elevated... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - America - 1823 - 532 pages
...Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the MississippiIt is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering on the bottom land, but elevated from 30 to 100 feet. The prairies of the Illinois River are the most extensive of any... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey, J. Lea - America - 1826 - 550 pages
...found at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. l)ry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering on the bottom land, but elevated... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 396 pages
...water ash, elm, willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and U unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering on the bottom land, from thirty... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 626 pages
...ash, elui, willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Walmsh, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi....Dry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering oil the bottom land, from 30 to 100 feet higher, and from 1 to 10 miles wide. These prairies are destitute... | |
 | Francis Wyse - United States - 1846 - 482 pages
...confluence of the Mississippi. It would be unsafe for the settler to locate himself upon this soil. 3rd. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers and bordering on the bottom land, from thirty to one hundred feet higher, and from one to ten miles wide. These prairies are destitute of... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Henry Vethake - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...ash, elm. willow, oak, &c. There are many thousand acres of this land at the moutli of tl¡" Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi....to 10 miles wide. These prairies are destitute of tree?, except where they are intersected by streams of water and occasional tracts of woodland. It... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1859 - 414 pages
...at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousands of acres of this land at the moyth of the W abash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. Dry prairies, approaching the rivers, and bordering on the bottom-land, but elevated... | |
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Newlyformed land found at the mouths of rivers. There are many thousand acres of this land at the mouth of the Wabash, and at the confluence of the Ohio with the Mississippi. It is annually inundated, and is very unhealthy. 3. 