A geographical description of the United States, with the contiguous countries, including Mexico and the West Indies; intended as an accompaniment to Melish's map of these countries ... / by John Melish. Philadelphia : The author, 1822.
In the time of the flatboats and the coming of the first steamboats documented so well through the early American navigational river guides, maps clearly indicated a future problem for St. Louis and its highly praised river harbor—the city was essentially on a peninsula which could become a remote island due to floods and other naturally occurring circumstances over time. The many islands and sand bars in the river were alarming testament in early maps.
Dissertation on Sanguinaria Canadensis (Blood Root) Submitted to the Public Examination of the Trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of the University of the State of New York