410 Correspondence. 
its western side, and receiving, besides, a few large tributaries, this ma- 
jestic river, slow moving as it must be, discharges an enormous quantity 
of water into the sea. The segment of land included between its 
mouth and a line draw from its source to the sea, is at no point elevated 
this river became truly an inland stream. this view of the gradual 
ological changes that have supervened in this state, it would appear 
that ancient, primitive Florida, must have n of quite insignificant 
Stream. Agassiz has shown that the coral building is now at an end 
on the southern extremity of this promontory, since the depth of the 
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