What to see in America . A DlUOUT Mississippi 299 Jackson, which has been the capital since 1815, is also thestates largest city. Down on the coast, five miles west ofBiloxi, Jefferson Davis had his country home in later life,and there died in 1889. Fifteen miles farther west is PassChristian, the chief winter and summer resort on the GulfCoast, which is here sandy and exceptionally healthful. Mississippi is called the Bayou State, a name thatrefers to the abundance of sluggish inlets along its rivers,especially along the great river which forms its entire fivehundred mile western boundary. Th
What to see in America . A DlUOUT Mississippi 299 Jackson, which has been the capital since 1815, is also thestates largest city. Down on the coast, five miles west ofBiloxi, Jefferson Davis had his country home in later life,and there died in 1889. Fifteen miles farther west is PassChristian, the chief winter and summer resort on the GulfCoast, which is here sandy and exceptionally healthful. Mississippi is called the Bayou State, a name thatrefers to the abundance of sluggish inlets along its rivers,especially along the great river which forms its entire fivehundred mile western boundary. The states highest pointis near luka in the far northeast corner, seven hundredand eighty feet above the sea level. Tadpoles is thenickname for the people of the state. This is equivalentto Young Frenchmen, for the derivation is based on thefact that Parisians used to be called The Alamo at Sax Axtonk XXXIV Texas Texas is nearly as large as were the original thirteen is a land of illimitable distances. There are more milesbetween its northernmost point and the mouth of the RioGrande than between Chicago and New York. East andwest it measures nearly as much, and to travel across it ineither direction by the fastest train now running requiresseveral hours more than a full day. There is much diver-gence in its climate. Orange and lemon trees flourish inthe southern counties, but a two-foot snowfall is not un-common in its northern upreach known as the east to west the rainfall steadily decreases, and thesplendid pines and oaks of the easterly portion give way toless pretentious growths, ending with the stubby mesquiteand insignificant sagebrush. In the Panhandle is Deaf Smith County, and several othercounties in the state are named in a somewhat similar 300 Texas 301 familiar way. Many years ago a governor, James S. Hogg,was honored b
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