The volume of the Mississippi is doubled when this "stately" river flows into it at Cairo, Illinois
[DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Illinois state gazetteer and business directory, for the ... [PAR] In presenting, therefore, this, the first volume of the ILLINOIS STATE .... XXXVIII 
Cairo City Mills, Charles Galligher & Co., XXXIX Cairo Iron Works, Reed & Mann, 
..... Small-pox River, rising south-east of Galena, runs west into the Mississippi, 
close ..... a rich soil and stately forests near the Illinois river and the Macoupin 
creek.