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" I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through which it carries its... "
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Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems

Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1806 - 370 pages
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi. " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....shore without mixing them: afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea." Letter xxvii....
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The Works of Thomas Moore: Epistles, odes, and other poems

Thomas Moore - 1823 - 348 pages
...CHARLEVOIX'S striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi • — " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....shore without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea."— Letter...
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The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads ..., Volume 2

Thomas Moore - 1823 - 344 pages
...suggested by CHAKLEVOIX'S striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi :—" I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....much of the same breadth, each about half a league j but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems to enter the Mississippi like a conqueror, through...
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The Works of Thomas Moore, Esq, Volume 2

Thomas Moore - Irish literature - 1825 - 340 pages
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi ' I believe this is the finest confluence in the world. The two rivers are much ui the sam? lireadth, each about hal1 a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid, and seems...
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Three Years in North America, Volume 2

James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 568 pages
...discoveries in North America, and who was in America in 1724, says of this confluence of the rivers, "I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....shore without mixing them. Afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea." At about...
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Three Years in North America, Volume 2

James Stuart - North America - 1833 - 632 pages
...discoveries in North America, and who was in America in 1724, says of this confluence of the rivers, " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....shore without mixing them. Afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea." At about...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Including Melodies, Ballads, Etc

Thomas Moore - 1835 - 440 pages
...believe this is the finest confluence in the world. Tile two livers are mucli of the same breadlh, each about half a league ; but the Missouri is by...like a conqueror, through which it carries its white \vaves to the opposite shore without mixing thorn : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi,...
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The Far West, Or, A Tour Beyond the Mountains: Embracing Outlines ..., Volume 1

Edmund Flagg - Illinois - 1838 - 306 pages
...in North America, with reference to this giant confluence, more than a century since thus writes : " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....white waves to the opposite shore without mixing them. Afterward it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore: Juvenile poems ; Poems relating to America

Thomas Moore - 1840 - 394 pages
...dreams sublime, Which all their miracles of light reveal To heads that meditate and hearts that feel ? a league ; but the Missouri is by far the most rapid,...shore, without mixing them : afterwards it gives its colour to the Mississippi, which it never loses again, but carries quite down to the sea." — Letter...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Volume 2

Thomas Moore - English poetry - 1840 - 414 pages
...suggested by Charlevoix's striking description of the confluence of the Missouri with the Mississippi. " I believe this is the finest confluence in the world....rivers are much of the same breadth, each about half But mind, immortal mind, without whose ray, This world's a wilderness and man but clay, Mind, mind...
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