"Once more upon the Waters!"--"Uncle Sam's Tooth-pullers"--Mode
of eradicating a Snag--River Suburbs of North St. Louis--Spanish
Fortifications--The Waterworks--The Ancient Mounds--Country
Seats--The Confluence--Charlevoix's Description--A Variance--
A View--The Upper Mississippi--Alton in distant View--The
Penitentiary and Churches--"Pomp and Circumstance"--The City
of Alton--Advantages--Objections--Improvements--Prospects--
Liberality--Railroads--Alton Bluffs--"Departing Day"--The
Piasa Cliffs--Moonlight Scene 113