White River rises in Arkansas, flows north-east into Missouri, then east, south-east, and south through Arkansas, and empties itself into the Mississippi near the mouth of the Arkansas. It is 800 miles long, and navigable 300 miles.
White River
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 644
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