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Excerpt from An Essay on the Climate and Fevers of the South-Western, Southern Atlantic and Gulf States: Embracing a Brief Exposition and Defence of the Existence and Essential Nature of Malaria, Accompanied and Illustrated With a Medico-Topographical and Meteorological Account of the Dead Sea Region
The principal rivers, with their tributaries, washing the east ern section, commencing on the cast, are the Cape Fear, Pedee Santee, Savannah, Ogeechee, Altamaha, St. Mary's, St. John's, Suwanee, Apalachicola, Alabama, Mobile, Tombigbee, Pearl and Yazoo; all of which, excepting the St. Mary's, St. John's and Suwanee, have their sources either within the Appalachian range or some one of its numerous outliers, and discharge their waters into the Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, or the Mississippi River. The St. Mary's and Suwanee, rivers of Georgia and Florida, have a common source in the Okefenokee swamp; the St. John's in an immense swamp in Orange County, Florida.
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