62 ADAPTATION OF FOODS TO SOIL, ETC. 
the coast. These may be divided into the Mississippi, 
lllinois and Wabash river flights, all of which diverged 
and spread over the entire state, both spring and fall, 
in every conceivable direction. 
Taking the Mississippi River as the parent stem, 
with Cairo as the southernly point, one flight followed 
the Ohio River, increased by additions from the 
Cumberland and the Tennessee, until it reached Galla- 
tin County, where the Wabash flight turned north up 
the river; this:fed all the border line counties, over the 
Kankakee Marshes, Beaver Lake up to Wolf, Hyde 
and Calumet lakes, to Lake Michigan. 
Passing Cairo the Mississippi flight extended over 
the big chain of lakes between Fountain Bluffs (or 
Hat Island) and the Big Muddy River, stretching far 
inward and up to Landing 45, up past Chester, swing- 
ing west round St. Louis to St. Charles Flats, over the 
swamps and sloughs upon the Carthage, Burlington 
& Quincy Railway, up to the Illinois River; then 
spreading over the northeast part of the state, passing 
into Wisconsin from the Winnebago swamps to the 
river westward. 
The Illinois River flight commenced above St. 
Charles Flats, spreading all over the American Bot- 
toms, working up over the lakes lying on both sides of 
the river until it reached Fox River, then over the Fox 
Lake Region north. 
A large flight also existed, fed by the Wabash and 
Illinois River streams in the northeastern part of the 
state; passing over Champaign, McLean, Ford and 
Kankakee counties to the Vermilion Swamps lying 
between the Illinois Central.and the Wabash railways. 
