 | 1875 - 782 pages
...miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old...Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a... | |
 | 1876 - 782 pages
...miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old...ago next November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Gaillard - 1875 - 332 pages
...miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old...ago next November, the Lower Mississippi river was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like... | |
 | 1886 - 508 pages
...itself 242 miles. This is an average of a trifle over 11.3 miles per year. Therefore any calm person who is not blind or idiotic can see that in the old oolitic Silurian period, just 1,000,000 years ago next November, the lower Mississippi river was upward of i ,300,000 miles long,... | |
 | 1885 - 520 pages
...is an average of a trifle over one and threetenth miles per year. Therefore, any calm person, who ia not blind or idiotic, can see that in the old oolitic Silurian period, just 1,000,000 years ago this month, the lower Mississippi was upward of 1,300,000 miles long, and stuck... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - 352 pages
...miles. That is an average of a trifle over one and one third miles per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the old...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of 1,300,000 miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod, and... | |
 | Herbert Alonzo Howe - 1896 - 352 pages
...miles. That is an average of a trifle over one and one third miles per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the old...million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of 1,300,000 miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing rod, and... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 506 pages
...miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old...ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - 500 pages
...miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old...ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1903 - 491 pages
...Oolitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long,...Mexico like a fishing-rod. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a... | |
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In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year. Therefore... 
