"Chattahoochee River" Quotes from Famous Books
... it unites with the Flint River at the southwestern extremity of Georgia. The Chattahoochee is about five hundred miles long, and small steamboats can ascend it to Columbus, Ga. Hon. Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, Ga., late Minister to Mexico, has an interesting poem 'To the Chattahoochee River', in his 'Tallulah and Other Poems' (Savannah, Ga., 1850); and Mr. M. V. Moore, in his poem, 'Southern Rivers' ('Harper', 66. 464, February, 1883), has a paragraph on the rivers of Georgia, in which he speaks ... — Select Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier |