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Quinta Scott's Mississippi River Photographs

Streams of the Arkansas and Red River Basins

“During the spring freshes the water that run out of the Mississippi, by the numerous lagoons or outlets below the Arkansas, are received by the Bayou Macon and Tensaw rivers, and thrown first into Black river, then into the Red river, and finally returned to the Mississippi; but as if proud in the majesty of strength, this mighty stream no sooner receives this great accession of force, than it discharges the auxiliary waters into the Atchafalaya.”--William Darby, 1816