Lloyd's steamboat directory, and disasters on the western waters (1856)
Lloyd, James T. [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, Ohio, J. T. Lloyd & co.; Chicago, Ill., D. B. Cooke & co. · leaf 169
cotton. It is probably not surpassed in navigable qualities by any riverin tho world of equal size. Steamboats ascend it from its mouth to its origin in all stages ofwater, and at all seasons of the year. Tho Tallahatchee, the largest branch, is perhaps ns longas the Yazoo itself, and is navigable… … aw) SKETCU OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. 165 to the mile. The elevation of the various points are at its extreme source sixteen hundredand eighty feet. Itasca lake, fifteen hundred and seventy-five feet; falls of St. Anthony,eight hundred and fifty-six feet; Prairie Du Chien, six liundred and forty-two…
