The alluvions of the Missouri are said to be higher than, and not so broad as, those of the Mississippi; yet their extent is constantly varying by the violence of the current, even more than those of the latter stream.
Through alluvions the land and also the territory of a State may be considerably enlarged.
The same and other natural processes which create alluvions on the shore and banks, and Deltas at the mouths of rivers, lead to the birth of new islands.
Such are the cotton-wood and the beech-grape, species which are usually confined to the arenaceous alluvions of valleys.
This plain is here of great extent, and elevated from thirty to fifty feet above the alluvions bordering the streams: it is for the most part level, but in places broken and undulating.
Like those of the Ohio valley, they are seldom found upon hilly or sterile lands, but mainly upon the rich undulating plains, or on the levels corresponding to the alluvions of the Ohio.
A considerable portion of the shore is rocky, and its alluvions are, in general, of too sandy and light a character for profitable husbandry.
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