Boundary line between Florida and GeorgiaCertain documents and reports relating to the locating and marking of the line between the territory and state of Florida and the state of Georgia .. . ^ land to set j^ourfeet on, and. at the same time, environed by an uninhabitablewilderness. This river, like all others passing through fiat countries, and notchecked or confined hy hills or mountains, is very crooked, as may beseen by the chart. This arises from a very natural cause, and maybe explained in the following manner: Suppose, in the figure, linesa b and c d to be the banks or margins of a por
Boundary line between Florida and GeorgiaCertain documents and reports relating to the locating and marking of the line between the territory and state of Florida and the state of Georgia .. . ^ land to set j^ourfeet on, and. at the same time, environed by an uninhabitablewilderness. This river, like all others passing through fiat countries, and notchecked or confined hy hills or mountains, is very crooked, as may beseen by the chart. This arises from a very natural cause, and maybe explained in the following manner: Suppose, in the figure, linesa b and c d to be the banks or margins of a portion of a river, andthe water moving in the direction e /, but meeting with an a e c. h d obstruction at /. it Avill be reflected in the direction / g^ and at g, aswell as at /, the bank will be worn away; about h an eddy will beformed, where sand, earth, and rubbish will be deposited, and con-tinually increase the convex part, while the concave parts will bew^orn away, and in time a loop will be formed something like thedotted curve line in the figure, which vrill increase in magnitude tillthe river, aided by an inundation, breaks through a shorter way, andthe convex part will become an island. If the loop has been verylarge, and the water ceases to have much current along it. the twoends in a short time will be filled up by the great quantity of mudand sand which are constantly mixed with the water of the Missis-sippi, and a lake will be formed. These lakes are to be met with invarious parts of the swamp, and bear evident marks of having been, atsome former period. ]^ortions of the main bed of the river. In conse({uence of the great body of water in the Mississippi,
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