The Mississippi River

An explorer says that the Mississippi's source is at the crest of the Itoekies, 8,000 f eet above sea level, just within the boundary of Montana. The stream is two feet -wide and two inehes deep, its water coming from melted snow. The source is 4,221 miles from the Gulf of Mexico and 2,945 miles from its confluence -with the Mississippi, maldngr the river the longest imbroken current in the world.