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Title: Where to emigrate and why : describe the climate--soil--productions--minerals and general resources--amount of public lands--the quality and price of farm lands in nearly all sections of the United States; and contains a description of the Pacific railroad--the homestead and other land laws--rates of wages throughout the country, etc., etc.
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Goddard, Frederick B. (Frederick Bartlett), b. 1834
Subjects: United States -- Economic conditions 1865-1918 United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Frederick B. Goddard
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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described as extremely fertile.In addition to the Mississippi River upon its eastern border,the Arkansas, one of the larger tributaries of the Mississippi,traverses the State in a southeasterly direction, dividing itinto two nearly equal sections, and is navigable far beyondthe limits of the State. The Red River, the White, St. Fran-cis, and Washita, are also large and navigable streams, andall combine to render the State a highly favored one in respect
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Am.Pholo LJtho^^raphic Co. NY ( Osbornes frocess./ AKKANSAS. 529 to natural facilities for internal navigation. A portion of theMississippi and Little Rock Railroad has been completed, andsome hundreds of miles of additional railroad liavc beenprojected, and will probably soon ))e constructed. Arkansaspresents a great diversity of surface features. The eastern portion of the State, included in a belt or stripof territory along the Mississippi River, from 30 to 100 milesin width, is low and marshy, annually overflowed by thewaters of the Mississippi, and covered with dense forests ofcypress, gum, and sycamore, affording no sites suitable forlarge towns in its ))resent condition. The country throughwhich the St. Francis flows, in the northeast i>art of the State,is also swampy, alternating in lakes, marshes, and cypressforests. Westward from these swamp regions, the face of thecountry gradually rises and becomes hilly, interspersed withrolling prairies and extensive forests. Still fu

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