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the south and west asin the north and in the wr ogo wobec the 
Missouri and the Mississippi, where our vineyar 
ted; and, even where most objectionable, they are we so 
ore oa, in India, and other grape-growing districts of the 
old Ww 
‘That portion of Southern Missouri, extendi ing from Newton 
County in the south-west to Ste. Genevieve in the south-east, 
usually represented as the eastern extremity of: the 
Mountains, is in fact: a able land y. 1,000 to 1 500 
feet above the ocean. In the west it is "sufficiently und 
ing to be well dvieagi: while in the east it sometimes ris 
into ridges and knobs of moderate’ elevation. From this table 
din ‘Cebislanas nied dine ‘White vitls Ata -tuibetonies,'dueioidion 
towards Arkansas5 and ae River “se Shoal Creek on the 
The valleys of th ous streams which flow from this 
te land are vat first but 1 but little e depressed below the general 
