Newspaper results for "Mississippi flood"~5 OR "Mississippi floods"~5 OR "Mississippi levee"~5 OR "Mississippi levees"~5

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55661 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (4848 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

1. The National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser — 1809-08-25, page 1

   … timber. The. oighest part of the swamp, is generally nearest the river. There are no levees or embankment,,;*'; on the Mississippi, and me floods which occur in a gn eror a le.it; degree every yearevi■-' crease the fertility …

   … experiment: It * lid not to admit of cultivation in so t high a latitude of the Mississippi ; j it is probable ■ fluence, ; 't the nearer position oi the sea | upon the * …

   … retarded tl rity of the district is it tuation apd its political connects ; with the Mississippi territory. Our in burs on every s, i iards. We naturally catch rit and ma..tiers …

2. Daily National Intelligencer — 1813-07-12, page 2

   … approbation of their countrymen. St. Francisville, June 10. The inundation of the Mississippi continues to increase—The flood is now about eight inches higher than in 1811, and a rise of ten inches Is still …

   … entirely under water, and the inhabi tants have retired to the high lands of the Mississippi territory for safety. The country between this place and New-Orleans, is more generally …

   … flood ed than has been known for 30’years all the slaves are withdrawn from the fields …

3. Daily National Intelligencer — 1813-10-21, page 2

   … produced, through vhich the waters of this migh ty hike were discharged, ani, with the floods of the Mississippi, disembogued into the Gulf of Mexico. But if we recollect the wonderful chasms, …

   … that this river would desert the broad surface which formed the bed of the great flood of water in its discharge, and center in a channel accommodated to its volume. …

   … between NewOrleans and the different states and territories that border on the Ohio, Mississippi, and their tributary streams. This important invention will exert the happiest …

4. Daily National Intelligencer — 1815-11-11, page 2

   … occupy >he most eligible situations for toms or settlements; and on the O hio and Mississippi, they are most nu merous and considerable —There is no' a r sing town or u farm …

   … situated. The American bottom is a tract of rich alluvion land, extending on the Mississippi, from the Kaskaskia to the Cahokia river, about eighty miles in length, and five …

   … it; the soil of the richest kind, and but little subject to the effects of the Mississippi floods. A number of lakes are interspersed through it, with high and fine banks; these …

5. Daily National Intelligencer — 1816-06-04, page 2

   … and not readily realised by those inhabiting a soil not formed by alluvion. The Mississippi would, for a great distance from its mouth, annually, like the Nile, overflow ail …

   … the country ad jacent to its banks, but for the embark ments, (called on the Mississippi Levees') which are raised, partly by nature, partly by art, to guard against the evil. …

   … The Levee is of various heights, from two to six feet, and sometimes thirty feet wide. Through …

6. Daily National Intelligencer — 1818-03-24, page 12

   … had already been making laborious and ex pensive preparations. Joliet reached the Mississippi, and returned without making any other discovery or any set tlement but La Salle …

   … continent are indebted for the discovery, from its source to the ocean, of the Mississippi, the father of the floods; and of the numberless million of freemen destined in this and future ages to sail …

   … settlements were effect ed by d’lberville and his brother, near the mouth of the Mississippi, upon the Gulf of Mexico. They languished, as they naturally must, 'during the …

7. Daily National Intelligencer — 1820-02-01, page 2

   … not recede, because expediency dictates it. Is, then, that vast region beyond the Mississippi, with its countless inhabitants, for ever to be subjected to a colonial government …

   … those hardy sues of the West; and when you, by your resolves, arrest the mighty flood of the Mississippi, then, and not till then, will you be able to repress this unconquerable spirit …

   … we yield to the cm lent, we swell the ureadtul tide, which, passing its li imts, floods the land, and whelms everything in ruin. The tine- has a rived which brings to …

8. Daily National Intelligencer — 1823-05-19, page 4

   … in six days from Louisville, confirmed the previous intelligence of an uncommon flood in the Mississippi. The ri ver had seldom or never been known so high, and the apprehensions appear …

   … Baltimore on Friday,in 13 days from New Or leans, we learn that the waters of the Mississippi were at a stand, and it was the opinion of expe rienced boatmen, who had just come …

9. Daily National Intelligencer — 1823-06-09, page 3

   … Spanish account, great al lowance must be made for what it contains.] [Nat. Advocate. MISSISSIPPI FLOOD. New Orleans, May 11.—Apprehensions con tinue to be expressed for the safety of …

   … the Levee. Mr. Roffignac is to-day hard at work with his numerous laborers, white and black …

   … . Yesterday the river run over into Levee street, between Jef ferson and St. Peter streets; and from the wind pressing hitherward …

10. Daily National Intelligencer — 1824-01-21, page 2

    … from the De laware to he Chesapeake Bay Will the states ever connect the great flood of the Mississippi with the sea board of the Atlantic States or extend the STeat Na I tional Road …

    … progression, the tri bute of a thousand valleys, are at length lost in the vast flood of the Mississippi, which, pursuing its majestic course towards the ocean, and swelled in its progress …

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