THE MISSISSIPPI'S SOURCE. 



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ULTIMATE SOURCE 



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MISSISSIPPI RIVER 



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this peculiar shape, rudely resembling an elk's head with nose to the 

 north and horns branching out towards the south, that suggested to 

 the Indians the name they gave it — Elk Lake, translated by the French 



