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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: Louis. The Indians, in their pompous language, have named it the
Father of Waters, or the Mississippi.
[Footnote a: Darby's "View of the United States."]
The Mississippi takes its source above the limit of the two
great regions of which I have spoken, not far from the highest
point of the table-land where they unite. Near the same spot
rises another river, *b which empties itself into the Polar seas.
The course of the Mississippi is at first dubious: it winds
several times towards the north, from whence it rose; and at
length, after having been delayed in lakes and marshes, it flows
slowly onwards to the south. Sometimes quietly gliding along the
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