Excerpt from The Mississippi and Its Forty-Four Navigable Tributaries: A Descriptive, Commercial, and Statistical Review, Illustrated With Three DiagramsThe Mississippi is ours by the law Of nature, it belongs to us by our numbers, and by the labor which we have bestowed on those spots which before our arrival were desert and barren. Our innumerable rivers swell it and ¿ow with it into the Gulf Sea. Its mouth is the only issue which nature has given to our waters, and we wish to use it for our vessels. NO power in the world shall deprive us of this right.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.