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Fragmentary prose on marriage and virtue amid river disaster
The readable text blends moral musings on choice of a wife and virtue with vivid observations of a catastrophic event. It describes how dissolved gases darkened air and tainted river water, and notes the land around New Madrid sinking and reshaping nearby lake bottoms, later repurposed for corn as the area recovered.
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Nick
Varbirtan
Vansurtey
Vanburion
Conneil Elulls
Svas
Indiana
Ageas
Ind
Ikea
Eiriek
Villaga
Vanharton
Pawhee
Oder
al Willet
Fort Sseamait
Trapper
Waan Reagan
Willett
Salaem
Desslaei
Janer
Generaisa Straiger
Daughar
Janet
Laramie
Janett
Descexy
Bostow Blanner
Will Amara
Capt
Taylor
Navy Yard
Com. Nicholson
Morton
Parmenter
Sturgis
Benjamin Thompson
Bayle
New Madrid