Down the Yellowstone, the Milk, the White and Cheyenne; The
Cannonball, the Musselshell, the James and the Sioux; Down the Judith, the
Grand, the Osage, and the Platte, The Skunk, the Salt, the Black, and
Minnesota; The Allegheny, the Monongahela, Kanawha, and Muskingum; Down the
Miami, the Wabash, the Licking, and the Green, The Cumberland, the Kentucky,
and the Tennessee; Down the Ouachita, the Wichita, the Red, and Yazoo -- Down
the Missouri, three thousand miles from the Rockies; Down the Ohio, a thousand
miles from the Alleghenies; Down the Arkansas, fifteen hundred miles from the
Great Divide; Down the Red, a thousand miles from Texas; Down the great
Valley, twenty-five hundred miles from Minnesota, Carrying every rivulet and
brook, creek and rill, Carrying all the rivers that run down two-thirds of the
continent -- The Mississippi runs to the Gulf.
From
www.nps.gov
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