Mississippi River
"Yet one word about the Mississip[p]i which, in truth, hardly deserves attention. It's a great river, yellow, rolling gently enough through the most profound solitudes, in the midst of forests which it inundates in spring and fertilizes with its mud. You see not a single hill on the horizon but woods, more woods, and still more woods: reeds, tropical creepers; a perfect silence; no trace of man; not even the smoke of an Indian encampment.
Tocqueville (Pierson 598)
Itinerary