... Pearl river rises in the Northern central part of Mississippi, and flowing in a southerly direction past Jackson, a distance of 250 miles, passes through Lake Borgne into the Gulf of Mexico. Yazoo river is a deep, narrow, sluggish stream, 290 miles long from the junction of the Tallahatchie and Yallabusha (which form it) to its mouth on the Mississippi, about 12 miles above Vicksburg. In navigable...