Article summary : the mighty Mississippi
During the winter when his surface is covered by ice, you can walk accross Mississippi in the north of America.
Nevertheless, beneath the Old man River continues his road towards the gulf of Mexico. A distance of 2500 miles with the meanderings of his flow represents his course before mingle with ocean.
It was Indians who called him Mississippi, that means the great river.
De Soto, a Spanish explorer was the first to interest in the river in 1541, but La Salle, a French, in 1682, embarked on the exploration and called the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour to the French king Louis XIV.
During a century, Mississippi was French, and nowadays, alone names of cities like St Louis or La Crosse stayed French.
Americans began to settle after 1783. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, cotton plantations were in full swing and the river helped to get produce down to New Orleans to be exported everywhere in the world.
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Article summary : The mighty Mississippi
During the winter when his its surface is covered by ice, you can walk accross across the Mississippi in the north of America.( better is...across the northern reaches/parts of the river. The river has drainage from 2 provinces in Canada but starts in Minnesota...Canada is part of America technically but it is less confusing to just say ‘the US’. )
Nevertheless, beneath the ice, the Old Man River continues its road journey towards the Gulf of Mexico, a distance of 2500 miles, with meanderings of his flow represents his course before mingle its way until mingling with the ocean.
It was the Indians who/that called him Mississippi. That (It ...is better) means ‘Great River’.
De Soto, a Spanish explorer was the first to take interest in the river in 1541, but La Salle, a Frenchman, in 1682, embarked on the exploration and called the Mississippi basin Louisiana in honour to the French king Louis XIV.
Americans began to settle after 1783. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, cotton plantations were in full swing and the river helped to get produce products down to New Orleans to be exported everywhere in the world.
Notes
In English we like to capitalize lots of words! Crazy.
Produce generally applies to things grown like vegetables but maybe it is too specific here. Cotton would have been processed and therefore maybe better called a product.
its is a possessive word used regularly because we don’t need to identify masculine or feminine...but sometimes we will make things masculine or feminine as in this case where the river is masculine. But if we use it too much it sounds funny because English speakers use he or she in very few instances when speaking about objects. Often we say, she’s a beautiful boat or old house, for example. Very emotional language.
But totally understandable the way that you wrote this.
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