Navigation of the Mississippi--The First Appropriation--
Improvements of Capt. Shreve--Mississippi and Ohio Scenery
contrasted--Alluvial Deposites--Ste. Genevieve--Origin--Site--
The _Haunted_ Ruin--The old "Common Field"--Inundation of
'85--Minerals--Quarries--Sand-caves--Fountains--Salines--
Indians--Ancient Remains--View of Ste. Genevieve--Landing--
Outrage of a Steamer--Indignation--The Remedy--A Snag and a
Scene--An Interview with "Charon"--Fort Chartres 93
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The Hills! the Hills!--Trosachs of Loch Katrine--Alluvial
Action--Bluffs of Selma and Herculaneum--Shot-towers--Natural
Curiosities--The "Cornice Cliffs"--The Merrimac--Its
Riches--Ancient Lilliputian Graves--Mammoth Remains--Jefferson
Barracks--Carondelet--Cahokia--U. S. Arsenal--St. Louis in the
Distance--Fine View--Uproar of the Landing--The Eternal
River--Character--Features--Sublimity--Statistics--The Lower
Mississippi--"Bends"--"Cut-offs"--Land-slips--The Pioneer Cabin 102