The progress of the United States of America, from the earliest periods, geographical, statistical, and historical . rivers the productiveuessis unbounded. On most of these the 6oil is a rich alluvion deposited from the washings of the floods, deep and wide,covering millions of acres. Back from the rivers the soil becomes more and more sterile, and in many parts it is unfit forculture, either from searcitj of water or from metallic impregnation. The principal growths are pines, cypresses, syca-mores, and oaks, according to the formation, and on the prairies, which are extensive, is that rank g
The progress of the United States of America, from the earliest periods, geographical, statistical, and historical . rivers the productiveuessis unbounded. On most of these the 6oil is a rich alluvion deposited from the washings of the floods, deep and wide,covering millions of acres. Back from the rivers the soil becomes more and more sterile, and in many parts it is unfit forculture, either from searcitj of water or from metallic impregnation. The principal growths are pines, cypresses, syca-mores, and oaks, according to the formation, and on the prairies, which are extensive, is that rank grass for which thisdescription of land is so famous. On the whole, Arkansas has many advantages for agriculture, and it has many dis-advantages. Where the latter exist, however, they are fully compensated for by the abundance of its minerals. It isalso well stocked with wild animals, as the buffalo, deer, elk, beaver, otter, rabbit, raccoon, wild cat, catamount, wolf,bear, which are valuable for their skins, and there is also a plentiful supply of wild turkeys, geese, quails, and otherspecies of THE STATE OF ARKANSAS. The Slate is traversed or washed by several of the largest rivers in America. The Mississippi bathes its eastern front formore than 350 miles by its windings, but affords no sites suitable for large towns in the present condition of the Arkansas, one of the largest tributaries of the Mississippi, traverses the whole breadth of the State through its centreby a very tortuous course of about miles, and is navigable during the greater part of the year far above its westernlimits. The Red River flows through the south-western corner, which is thus rendered accessible to steamboats. All theother rivers, some of which are of great magnitude, empty themselves into these three, affording navigable facilities toalmost every quarter of the State. The St. Francis is a large and full river, rising in the eastern highlands of chann
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