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Excerpt from The Muscle Shoals Project, Florence, Alabama
The Tennessee, as may be seen by the sketch, has its origin in the Great Valley of Virginia, flows twice across the state of Tennessee and into the Ohio, 47 miles above the junction of that river with the Mississippi. It is navigable from its mouth, at Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tennessee, a distance of 650 miles, with the single exception of the Mus cle Shoals, lying in the Alabama counties, Lauder dale, Colbert and Lawrence. For a distance of 17 miles above Florence, the river is obstructed by a rocky bed of flint forming innumerable small is lands, where the water is too shallow and swift for navigation. Within this distance, the incline in the river bed averages feet per mile, and makes a total drop of 134 ft. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
