ON THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. 
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IX.— ON THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. 
St. Lou’-is [Saint Loo'-is]. | 
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1. BELOW the mouth of the Missourl, SS nn © 
largest city upon the banks of the ET a {he 
also one of the largest and best I A i enables 
United States. Its position on the MP a vi 
it to send boats from its wharves, not RN on the 
and village along this river, but also to 
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Mae this is not all. Not far ia abatac af U 
the mouth of the Ohio, which is also % m Cin- 
Mississippi. By this stream, boats can n its banks. 
cinnati and Pittsburg, and. other places  amaller One 
'T’hus, by these three great rivers, and . N de with every 
flowing into them, St. Louis can easi M %. flow. Be- 
Part of the rich plain through which "is city in all 
sides, like Cincinnati, railroads lead From with railroad 
directions. A long and handsome ba Mississippi 
tracks as well as a carriage way, crosses the } 
here. 
3. Below the mouth of the Ohio, the rich country 
through which the Mississippi flows begins to be cov- 
ered with fields of cotton, instead of wheat and corn. 
In the spring, the young plant may be seen starting up 
from the seeds, in long lines across the fields. It grows 
Yapidly, and puts forth branches like a little tree; and 
in summer it is covered with pretty pale-yellow flow 
ers, Towards autumn, inst2-* ‘ Acwers, there i8 &