A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . Missouri is one of the largeststates in the Union, covering an areaof C9,100 square miles; some com-pute it as high as 70,000. It extendsfrom 36^ to 40° 30 north latitude,and from 11° 45 to 17° 30 west lon-gitude. To form some idea of itsextent, we have only to reflect thatthe Mississippi washes five hundredmiles of its eastern boundary, whilethe Missouri runs more than fivehundred miles along its western bor-der, and through its centre. It isbounded north by Iowa
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . Missouri is one of the largeststates in the Union, covering an areaof C9,100 square miles; some com-pute it as high as 70,000. It extendsfrom 36^ to 40° 30 north latitude,and from 11° 45 to 17° 30 west lon-gitude. To form some idea of itsextent, we have only to reflect thatthe Mississippi washes five hundredmiles of its eastern boundary, whilethe Missouri runs more than fivehundred miles along its western bor-der, and through its centre. It isbounded north by Iowa, south byArkansas, and west by Indian territory. The banks of each of these rivers aredotted all along with towns, rapidly growing into importance by the commerce ofits waters. Besides these great highways of trade, there are the Osage, Gasco-nade, and Grand rivers, navigable for one or two hundred miles within its great prairie, which extends over Indiana and Illinois, stretches through Mis-souri on to the Rocky mountains, interspersed, in this state, with heavy bodies oftimber along its numerous water-course
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