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on the west to the Appalachians on the east and from the 

 northern border of the country to the Gulf, the spread- 

 ing arms of its tributaries stretch out ready to bear to the 



THE JETTIES OF THE MISSISSIPPI. 



To keep the river from silting up its channel, it is confined between 

 jetties and made to flow swiftly. 



ocean by cheap and easy paths the products of this vast 

 interior basin. By the aid of the Panama canal these 

 varied products may travel directly by water without 

 more than one or two re-shipments from their source in 



DELTA LAND OF THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI. 



the vast continental interior to the uttermost par-ts of the 

 earth. 



This noble river presents in its eventful history an 



