Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 70
of earth, trees, andvegetation, the vastnessof which is inconceivable.The Mississippi hasmade itself the problem dreading the worst, and as helpless when it comesas is the mountaineer who dwells in the shadow ofthe volcano or in the path of the avalanche. In the spring of 1879, Archibald Law-rence… … of the coun-try. CaptainEads has,to a certainextent, by means of his jetties, succeeded indeepening the treacherous mouthof the stream, so often choked withshifting sand-bars. But no planhas yet been devised by whichthe great river, when sur-charged with water, can bestopped from sweeping awaythe…
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