Excerpt from The Juvenile Instructor, Vol. 33: March 1, 1898 The Mississippi River rises every spring, but not to a uniform height. It is when it climbs some feet above the lower banks and sends great billows of water far and wide across the surround ing country that it takes on a majesty that would be sublime but for the ruin which it accomplishes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.