The history and geography of the Mississippi Valley. To which is appended a condensed physical geography of the Atlantic United States, and the whole American continent. Second edition

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THE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TO WHICH IS APPENDED A CONDENSED PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE ATLANTIC UNITED STATES, AND THE WHOiJe AMERICAN CONTINENT. Second Edition. By Timothy Flint, AUTHOR OF "RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST TEN YEARS IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY." 'SALVE MAGNA PARENS. 1 IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. Qtimlnnuti, t- H FLINT AND L R LINCOLN- 1832. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and thirty .one, hj Timothy Flikt, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of Ohio. CINCINNATI. tress of L. R. Lincoln. TO Joseph Peabody, Esq. SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS. Sir, I have ventured to inscribe this book with your name, for the following reasons. I wished to prove, that much as I have wandered, my heart and my affections have still had their stationary points.

It is my pride to hope, amidst all the vicissitudes, through which I have passed, that the friends of my youth will be those of my age. Years in their flight will never shed the mildew of oblivion over kindnesses, which have marked every period of my intercourse with you. Those kindnesses are alike associated with the remembrance of scenes that have passed in the land of my birth, and in distant regions west ofthe Mississippi. To you and one other friend it is owing, that I ever appeared before the public. I know not, if the public will thank you, or if it ought. I feel, that I, at least, ought never to forget the kindness and munificence of the motive. While your keels plough every sea, bringing home the rich harvests of commerce, I have always known you the earnest and consistent friend of the sacred soil and the plough.

This acquaintance with predilections, apparently so foreign from those, which have governed your pursuits in life, has added an induce ment to inscribe to you a book, which, while it presents a DEDICATION. brief sketch of all the great interests of our country, dwells with most detail upon the fertility of the American soil, and the uncounted millions of acres of its unfilled and teeming wilderness, yet to be occupied by independent and happy yeomen. Fortunate as has been the general course of your career, since my first work was inscribed with your name, you have experienced a loss as severe, as can try the human heart, and have sustained it with a firmness of Christian philosophy, which proved that in the midst of prosperity you had not forgotten on what tenure we hold all the blessings of this mutable existence.