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Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and beautiful crafts alike, while they pay but littleregard to incongruities of gender or class: the Naiad may be a coal-barge,or the Dry Docks a palace steamer. The ice makes short work of even thelargest cargoes; the river will swallow up several hundred thousand bushelsof coal or grain as if it were the merest bagatelle, while the gorges gape for more.Great numbers of barges ply between St. Louis and Pittsburg, via the Ohio,engaged in the transportation of iron ore. It is a long and wild journey, movingslowly upon the treacherous currents of the two great streams, the men on thebarges sometimes contenting themselves for a month without going on shore,living on rude fare, and cuddling with their families in little cabins in the boats
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View of the Caisson of the East Abutment of the St. Louis Bridge, as it appeared during construction. sides, like the Belgian canal-men. Dozens of these barges are always moored atCarondelet, waiting the freights which pour into them from the mines in thesouth-east of the State. When navigation throughout the Mississippi valleyshall have been properly improved, the river trade of St. Louis will be quadrupled.The triumph in engineering, won by Captain Eads in the successful comple-tion of the great bridge, is a magnificent one. This was not, however, the firstimportant work accomplished by him. He built the vessels Benton, Baronde Kalb, Cincinnati, and others, used with such effect by Admiral Porterduring the war. He afterward constructed fourteen iron clads for the United BRIDGING THE FATHER OF WATERS. 235 States, and he invented various improvements in military and naval defences.He was the first man in America or Europe to devise successful means foroperating heavy ordnance by steam

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