On reaching Tver we crossed the Volga by a high iron bridge,-one of the greatest rivers of the world, the mississippi of Russia.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
What amount of mud is carried in suspension by the mississippi, and discharged annually into the sea?
"Geology"
James Geikie
These Indians it is to whom nine-tenths of the Valley of Missouri originally belonged-the Indians of the great Sioux class; Indians whose original hunting-grounds included the vast prairie-country from the Rocky Mountains to the mississippi, and who again appear as an isolated detachment on Lake Michigan.
"The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies"
Robert Gordon Latham