And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
The Mississippi River and its tributaries within the bounds of the USA
If the early settlers had come from the west or south, at the point where the Missouri & Mississippi meet they would have seen that the Mississippi was the smaller river system joining the larger Missouri system.
Per now-deceased comedian Tim Wilson, “When we bought the Louisiana Purchase, we gave 3 cents an acre. If we sold it today, we could probably triple our money.”
Possibly stupid question here, but who decides, and how, which of the waterways is "the" river into which the others all flow? Just start at the most-northerly branch and call that the headwater of the river?
If the early settlers had come from the west or south, at the point where the Missouri & Mississippi meet they would have seen that the Mississippi was the smaller river system joining the larger Missouri system.
ReplyDeleteThe territory west of Big Muddy comprised the Louisiana Purchase.
ReplyDeleteA bargain.
DeletePer now-deceased comedian Tim Wilson, “When we bought the Louisiana Purchase, we gave 3 cents an acre. If we sold it today, we could probably triple our money.”
DeleteThat is quite the watershed.
ReplyDeletePossibly stupid question here, but who decides, and how, which of the waterways is "the" river into which the others all flow? Just start at the most-northerly branch and call that the headwater of the river?
ReplyDeleteI think you kind of reverse engineer it. Start at the mouth and work your back through any connecting offshoots until you can’t branch out anymore
Delete@Anonymous: That would give you a map, but I'd think *all* the branches could be back-tracked like that.
DeleteMeh, it's not a big issue:-)
Looks like the artist got bored when he got east of Indiana. There's a lot missing, and a bit wrong.
ReplyDeleteIt's about the muddy Mighty Miss. No tribs East of Indi.
DeleteLook at the tributaries alone, nothing else; it still appears to be North America.
Look at it!
:)
Fascinating
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ReplyDeleteTote that barge, lift that bail, have a lil drink and youse goes to jail.
ReplyDeleteBut that old man river, he jus' keeps rollin' along.