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bluffs, on the west side Of the river, on the prai
ries several miles back from the eastern side, are
another range of lofty bluffs, marked in the same
manner, with water lines and hoows. The DIS
lance between these ranges of bluffs is about ten
miles The river is supposed once 10 have flow
ed between, washing the base OF both ranges.


This must be true; or mighty deluge, swollen
with the waters Of the northern lakes and rivers,
moved from their natural basins by some great
lconvnlsion of nature, must have swept It's ue-
mendous tide between them, and thus have cor


roded their surfaces.


| Nature has evidently slept uneasy in the val


lev Of the Mississippi. Floods, earthquakes and


volcanic commissions have left strong OF their


devastating effects, in all parts of this celebrated


valley. The earthquake OF 1911, shook the


Mississippi from its ancient bed and turned it
into new channels. Its waters rushed over The
banks, and formed great lakes in the adjacen.
country, many Of which yet remain. One of
these lakes sixty miles in length and twenty
in breadth. At cape Grardeau, the river swept


into the town, carrying of a street of houses.
shauering many others, and, as it retreaed, the
graveyard on the bank gave way, and yawned
its contents into the flood. The wild and i'm
posing scenery, along this valley, the hoary and
venerable cliffs which enclose it, and the majestic
river, flowing i'll silent pomp from remote and un-
leXplored fountains in the north, are calculated to
impress the traveller with sentiments of awe and
admiration, deeper than those inspired by any
other natural scenery in the world.