"But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who (praise be to Heaven) has no young children like him! An enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide, running liquid mud, six miles an hour: its strong and frothy current choked and obstructed everywhere by huge logs and whole forest trees"
As a transport system, though, the father of rivers has been enormously significant over the centuries. Daniel Huffman makes the point well at somethingaboutmaps, comparing the river and its tributaries to a metro system:
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