A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . jt fiR nKaCHllTION OF THK STATK OF Missouri is one of the lars^eststates in the Union, covering an areaof 69,100 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 its^ extent, we have only to reflect thatthe Mississippi washes five hundredmiles of its eastern houndary, whilethe Missouri runs more than fivehundred miles aUmg its westein bor-der, and through its centre. It ishounded north by Iowa, south byArkansas, and
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . jt fiR nKaCHllTION OF THK STATK OF Missouri is one of the lars^eststates in the Union, covering an areaof 69,100 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 its^ extent, we have only to reflect thatthe Mississippi washes five hundredmiles of its eastern houndary, whilethe Missouri runs more than fivehundred miles aUmg its westein bor-der, and through its centre. It ishounded north by Iowa, south byArkansas, and wtst hy Indian territory. The baidvs of each of these rivers aredotted all along with towns, rapidlv growing into importance by the commerce ofits waters. Besides these great hic^hways of trade, tliere 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-co
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