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All of these streams run separately into the western 
part of the Gulf of Mexico. Most of them are navigable, 
and small steamers are generally able to ascend to a dis- 
tance of from fifty to five hundred miles. 
The Mississippi slope embraces all the country watered 
by streams which flow into the Mississippi river, and in- 
cludes the States of Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, and 
the western part of Tennessee. 
The principal streams are the Mississippi, the White, 
Arkansas, and Red rivers on the west of the " Father of 
Waters," and the Yazoo and Big Black on the east. J^e 
may also include the Pearl and Pascagoula, which, ruX^^iiig 
southward through the State of Mississippi, em^'y into 
the Gulf /-■ . 
The eastern Gulf slope embraces all of Alabaiia except 
the northern part through which the Tennessee river runs, 
all of Florida except that lying immediately on"^the At- 
lantic, and western Georgia. 
The principal streams are the Tombigbee, Alabama, 
Appalachicola, and Suwanee. 
These streams all flow in a southerly direction, and 
empty into the Gulf of Mexico between longitude 83° and 
88° west from Greenwich. 
The Atlantic slope embraces eastern Georgia, eastern 
Florida, all of South Carolina, and all of North Carolina 
except that part which hes between the Blue Ridge and 
the Alleghany mountains. 
The principal streams are the St Johns, Altamaha, 
Ogeechee, Savannah, Edisto, Santee, Great Pedee, Cape 
Fear, Neuse, Tar, and Roanoke. 
On all these streams and their unnumbered tributaries 
there are valley lands of surpassing richness and fertihty. 
