. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY. TYPICAL OZARK UPLAND SCENE W. W. Rathbone—Photo. Golconda nestling in a deep valley at the mouth of a tributary of the Ohio and spreading out onto the adjoining hills from whose bluffs the view of the main river is unsurpassed. Not far below, the Cumberland joins it, and the Tennessee at Paducah, forming a stream that rivals the Missis- sippi in size. Such is its magnitude that the great bridge now being built at Metropolis is given by one authority as one of the ten greatest engineer- ing projects of the present decade. Ba
. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY. TYPICAL OZARK UPLAND SCENE W. W. Rathbone—Photo. Golconda nestling in a deep valley at the mouth of a tributary of the Ohio and spreading out onto the adjoining hills from whose bluffs the view of the main river is unsurpassed. Not far below, the Cumberland joins it, and the Tennessee at Paducah, forming a stream that rivals the Missis- sippi in size. Such is its magnitude that the great bridge now being built at Metropolis is given by one authority as one of the ten greatest engineer- ing projects of the present decade. Bay creek, rising in Pope county, has a fall of three hundred feet dur- ing the first seven miles of its course and is confined within rocky walls. For the other thirty-three miles it drops but a few feet for it has emerged into an old river bed. This river bed is marked by the course of the lower Bay (beginning at the mouth of the Bay creek), extends westward through the swamp to the north of Massac county, and is occupied in its lower course by the present Cache river which joins the Ohio above Cairo. This old river bed could contain the upper Ohio of today and no doubt did once contain it. Its width and high bluffs thruout its length indicate that. Probably the Cumberland and Tennessee have always followed the course of the lower Ohio, but the upper Ohio must surely have remained apart and followed the path nearer the hills through which some of its waters still flow at flood time, thus making of the greater part of Massac county, temporarily, an island. Extensive cypress swamps at one time occupied the connecting lowland between the Bay and the Cache proper at the foot of the Ozark bluffs. Immense drainage ditches and the lumbering in- dustry have turned much of this into rich farm land. It was here that the wild turkey lingered longest and the water fowl stayed in countless num- bers. Here was the haunt of the wood duck and here lingered some ducks throughout the winter. T
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