. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . A DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF THE RIVER MISSISSIPPI, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES OF ITS DANGEROUS NAVIGATION AND AN AFFECTING ACCOUNT OF THE BURNING OF THE BEN SHERROD, A STEAMBOAT^ ON THAT RIVER;May, ATURE and art seem to have mutuallycombined for the destruction of humanlife in the formation of the Mississippi,and in the appliance of steam power innavigating its waters. However inimicalto man nature may have been in thephysical formation of this mighty river,with its numerous whirl
. The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine . A DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH OF THE RIVER MISSISSIPPI, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE ANECDOTES OF ITS DANGEROUS NAVIGATION AND AN AFFECTING ACCOUNT OF THE BURNING OF THE BEN SHERROD, A STEAMBOAT^ ON THAT RIVER;May, ATURE and art seem to have mutuallycombined for the destruction of humanlife in the formation of the Mississippi,and in the appliance of steam power innavigating its waters. However inimicalto man nature may have been in thephysical formation of this mighty river,with its numerous whirlpools, eddies, currents, snags, andother hidden dangers, art has far exceeded it in the nu-merous fires, explosions, and collisions of steamboats, whichare continually taking place on its lengthy surface. Wewill give a short and descriptive sketch of this importantand celebrated river. It has been the fashion with travellers to talk of theScenery of the Mississippi as wanting grandeur and certainly it has neither. But there is no scenery onearth more striking. The dreary and pestilential solitudes,untrodden, save by the foot of Indians; the absence of all 344 THE DANGERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI. living objects, save the huge alligators which float past, ap-parently asleep, on the drift-wood, and
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