...were, in comparison with it, full of interest. At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so fiat and low and marshy, that at certain seasons of the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated...

...and Future of the City of Cairo, in North America, as quoted in Landsden, Cairo, 51. "At length ... we arrived at a spot so much more desolate than any...the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breedingplace of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated...

...settlement at the meeting of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers which Dickens describes in American Notes: 'At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat...the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death ... A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away:...

...the Ohio River, at Cairo, Illinois, in 1842, he wrote of the site with disdain: ... on ground so flat and marshy, that at certain seasons of the year it...house-tops, lies a breeding place of fever, ague, and death, ... a dismal swamp, ... an ugly sepulchre, a grave uncheered by any gleam of promise . . . (cited in...

...beheld, that the forlornest [»laces ue had passed, were, in comparison with it. full nl interest. \t the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat and low and inarshv. thai at certain seasons of the year it is inundated In the house-tops, lies a breeding-place...

...Cairo, and the severe description given of it in Dickens' American Notes is not unmerited. "At length we arrived at a spot so much more desolate than any...the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death. A dismal swamp, on which the half-built houses rot away;...

...Case History of Cairo, Illinois, 11; Bradsby, History of Cairo, 29; Lantz, Community in Search, 11. At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat...the year it is inundated to the housetops, lies a breeding-place of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated...

...monotonous objects. Hour after hour, the river rolled along, as wearily and slowly as the time itself. At length, upon the morning of the third day, we arrived...the year it is inundated to the house-tops, lies a breedingplace of fever, ague, and death; vaunted in England as a mine of Golden Hope, and speculated...