Betty B.
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871 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3d ago
Betty B.’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The country through which it flows is beautiful.
The groves are so dispersed in the prairies that it makes a noble prospect, and the fruit of the trees shows a fertile soil.
These groves are full of walnut, oak, and other trees unknown to us in Europe.
We saw neither game nor fish, but roebuck and buffaloes in great numbers.
After having navigated thirty leagues we discovered some iron mines, and one of our company who had seen such mines before, said these were very rich in ore.
They are covered with about three feet of soil and situate near a chain of rocks, whose base is covered with fine timber.
After having rowed ten leagues farther, making forty leagues from the place where we had embarked,
We came into the Mississippi on the seventeenth of june sixteen seventy three.
The mouth of the Mesconsin, Wisconsin, is in about forty two and a half north latitude.
Behold us then upon this celebrated river, whose singularities I have attentively studied.
The Mississippi takes its rise in several lakes in the north.
Its channel is very narrow at the mouth of the Misconsin and runs south until it is affected by very high hills.
Its current is slow because of its depth.
In sounding we found nineteen fathoms of water.
A little further on it widens nearly three quarters of a league.
and the width continues to be more equal.
We slowly followed its course to the south and southeast to the forty two degree north latitude.
Here we perceived the country change its appearance.
There were scarcely any more woods or mountains.
The islands are covered with fine trees, but we could not see any more roebucks, buffaloes, bustards, and swans.
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