Transcription: This noble and celebrated stream, this Nile of North America, commands the wonder of the old world while it attracts the admiration of the new. From its mouth, where it receives the Ohio, is a thousand miles by water but only five hundred by land passing through the Chickasaw country. By means of this river and its tributary streams, the surplus produce of more than a million of industrious inhabitants is at this time carried to a ready market. And by the same means the valuable property products of India, of Europe and the islands are received by them in turn." Zadok Kramer, The Navigator, 18 ...
