Geology of the Mississippi Valley--Ohio Cliffs--The Iron
Coffin--"Battery Rock"--"Rock-Inn-Cave"--Origin of Name--{x}
A Visit--Outlines and Dimensions--The Indian _Manito_--Island
opposite--The Freebooters--"The Outlaw"--The Counterfeiters--
Their Fate--Ford and his Gang--Retributive Justice--"Tower
Rock"--The Tradition--The Cave of Hieroglyphics--Islands--
Golconda--The Cumberland--Aaron Burr's Island--Paducah--Name--
Ruins of Fort Massac--The Legend--Wilkinsonville--The "Grand
Chain"--Caledonia--A Storm--Sunset--"The Meeting of the
Waters"--Characteristics of the Rivers--"Willow Point"--The
place of Meeting--Disappointment--A Utopian City--America 70
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Darkness Visible--The "Father of Waters"--The Power of Steam--
The Current--"English Island"--The Sabbath--A Blessed
Appointment--Its Quietude--The New-England Emigrant--His
Privations--Sorrows--Loneliness--"The Light of Home"--Cape
Girardeau--Site--Settlement--Effects of the Earthquakes--
A severer Shock--Staples of Trade--The Spiral Water-wheels--
Their Utility--"Tyowapity Bottom"--Potter's Clay--
A Manufactory--_Rivière au Vase_--Salines--Coal-beds--
"Fountain Bluff"--The "Grand Tower"--Parapet of Limestone--
Ancient Cataract--The Cliffs--Divinity of the Boatmen--
The "Devil's Oven"--The "Tea-table"--Volcanic and Diluvial
Action--The Torrent overcome--A Race--Breathless Interest--
The Engineer--The Fireman--Last of the "Horse and Alligator"
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