Life on the Mississippi
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1883
- Retrieved
- Jun 11, 2012
- ISBN
- Lh0RAAAAYA
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The Past and Future of the Mississippi
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the old Oolitic Silurian Period, must a million years…