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Title: History of Saline County, Missouri, carefully written and compiled from the most authentic official and private sources ... with a condensed history of Missouri; the state constitution; a military record of its volunteers in either army of the great civil war ... biographical sketches of prominent men ..
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Missouri Historical Company, St. Louis, pub
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Publisher: St. Louis, Missouri historical company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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southern high ridge barrier, of course the channelthrough this narrow pass became gradually deeper and deeper, and asgradually drained off the mighty lake, leaving four great states coveredchiefly with a kind of sediment which Prof. Swallow has termed bluff * Dr. Shumard in his veport on a geological section from St. Louis to Commerce,—p. 151,says: The Grand Tower rises from the bed of the Mississippi, an isolated mass of rock,of a truncated-conical shape, crowned at the top with stunted cedars, and situated aboutfifty yards from the Missouri shore. It is eighty-five feet high, and four hundred yardsin circumference at the base. During high water, the current rushes around its base withgreat velocity. * * About half a mile below the Tower, near the middle of the river, isa huge mass of chert. * In the next two miles the Missouri shore is bounded by hillsfrom 75 to 200 feet in altitude. It is rocky and blufiy for six miles or more along here,some of the elevations reaching 330 feet.
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HISTORY OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI. 81 deposit, though called by other vvriteis loess. At Grand Tower, wherethe Mississippi has worn for itself this narrow gorge or pass through therocks, the current rushes and roars and tumbles along at such a mill-flumerate, that the passage by boats either up or down stream, is difficult anddangerous.* And it was here that the river pirates had their strongholdin the early da3^s of keel-boat traffic between St. Louis and New Orleans.They permitted no traders to pass this point without paying such tributeas they chose to levy; and upon the least show of resistance, they wouldrob, murder and plunder without remedy. If the human history of thisplace could be written, it would be full of blood-curdling incidents, anddeeds of violence by rude and murderous men. The following table of elevations above tide water in the Gulf of Mex-ico will give a general idea of the heights reached by this southernupland region: Granby, Newton county, (farthest southwest)

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