“We noticed that above Dubuque the water of the Mississippi was olive green−rich and beautiful and semi-transparent, with the sun on it. Of course the water was nowhere as clear or of as fine a complexion as it is in some other seasons of the year; for now it was at flood stage, and therefore dimmed and blurred by the mud manufactured from caving banks."
Mark Twain a.k.a. Samuel Clemens
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