16 ao on the Region of the Mississippi, Se. 
guiiees) fi latitude you had: preseribed for an answer, and 
: which would have required several days, in order to give 
4 satisfac 
Sorvihatandiaet I will gilea rons to send you tee the 
-present, such information as the n narrow bounds I have lef 
will admit. TI will hereafter take more time for a detailed 
eeeonton, which i will forward 40 you;: or to Professor 
Sillima 
~ Tam otiy thortified, that the specimens* remaining 
in my posse jon, and which will accompany this, are of so 
little accoun op should have been happy to be able to 
give youa Weiter testimony of my good will, tow ards all 
attempts useful to society. 
efore I proceed, I must claim your indulgence for at- 
‘empting to write in a language with which I am s0 litile fa- 
milia r. 
The state of eal covering mostly a ‘country 
of alluvion, just making its app ie @ water, A 
peck ae Tittle v ri 
vast ‘fe Id for ae wh ish ie trace ‘maby 
ane ious of nature. . 
Ps Sits ss over the num erous : phenomena which the sedi- 
ment of the Mississippi i is preparing, for future ages, in the 
Gulph of Mexico. “The effect resulting from the infinite 
quantity and variety of 1 matter carried daily by the torrents 
into we bosom of the sea, and { ated t thereii 
ei 
see 
sufficiently intere: 
eC lin many other a. ’ — | 
Bent rg raf the Misisippi. . _— 
T will, Nowe, stop a moment, on the in of ¢ 
Mississippi, to consider how, as the stream is tscetided. the 
banks of this river gradually rise and again descend to- 
wards the —— 3 50 Ba: the Misisip in all its allu- 
wo aint by the anton ape in our. possesion, 
Ww. agree mith, him as tothe ae 8 Seok 
Sie wien KS wot use the names on Mati apf be Unite 
§ Marine 
Q cestng, an 
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