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which overflows the banks & spreads itself for 5 miles of more in width, in many parts of Alabama. The rise is sudden & so rapid as to drive a current up the Tallapoosa for 8 miles. In Jan. 1796 the flood rose 47 feet and spread itself for 3 miles on the left bank of the Alabama: and the ordinary width of that river, taken at the first bluff below the fork, is one hundred & fifty yards. This bluff is on the left side & 45 feet high. On this bluff are 5 conic mounds of earth, the largest 30 yards diameter at the base & 17 feet high. The others are smaller.

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