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A Longitudinal River

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
January
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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A river that runs east or west crosses no parallels of latitudo; consequently as it flovvs towards the. sea, it does not chango its climate ; and being iu the samo climate tho orops that aro grown at its nioutli are grown also at its sources; :ilü from one end to the other. of it there i's no varioty of productions- it is all wheat and.corn, or wine or oil, or sotue other staple. Assorted cargues, therefore, catniot be made up from the produce whieh such a river bringa down to market. . Ou the other hand a riyer that runs n.orth o:1 south crosses parallels of latitnde, its climato at every turn ; and as the traveler descends it, he sees new agricultural gtaplea abouuding. Such a river bears down to tho sea a variety of productions, some of which some one or another of the different nations of the cartli is sure to want, and for which each ono will send to the market at its mout!), or tho port whonco they r.re distributed over the world. lts advuntages are equally creat foï trade between thu different sections through which it flows, as the staples of thoae sectinns are unlike, and produotions lacking in oae part of its eourse are supplied "iu auother. Tho assortroents of, njerchandize afforded by such a river are tho life of comineroo, Thoy give it energy, activity arid copo. Such a river is the Mississijipi, r.nd tlio Misáissippi is tho only suoh river in the world.

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Old News
Michigan Argus