Show the florl of the mississippi f uhe mississippi ban in the co arse of ages transported from the mountains and land within its drainage an a I 1 material to make squire miles of new laud by filling up an estuary wt ach extended from its original out fall to the bulf of mexico foe a length ot COO miles froan 30 lo 10 40 miles ahls river is still pouring solid mailer into tl a gulf nl ere it is spread oat in a danl be shape over a coast line of miles and is alling up at the rate of tons a year or six times as much soil as was removed in the construction of alis manchester ship canal and chent to make a square mile of new land allowing for its having to all op the gulf t a depth of eighty yards borne idea of the va of this op aeration may be conceived when the fact Is considered fiat some of this soil has to be transported more than SOW miles aud that it the whole of it bad to be carried iu boats at the ion rate at which heavy material la carried on tl e inland waters of Aai erica or say for one hath of a cent per tou per hinlle over an average of half the cotil distance the cost ronld be no les u um tt an 1190 year through 11 e vast deta thus formed the river winds its way twisting aud turning by able beads until it extends its length 1200 miles or more than double he point to point lengan of the dalti continually eroding the banks in one place and building up in another breaking its way across a birrow neck which lies between U e two extremities and tilling up the old channel exchange |