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Definition of Tombigbee River
1. Noun. A river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River.
Group relationships: Al, Alabama, Camellia State, Heart Of Dixie, Magnolia State, Mississippi, Ms
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tombigbee River
Literary usage of Tombigbee River
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colonial Mobile: An Historical Study, Largely from Original Sources, of the by Peter Joseph Hamilton (1897)
"THE Tombigbee River IN 1771. THE acquisition of Florida by the English caused
the production of a number of books relating to the Indians, geography, ..."
2. Special Report by Geological Survey of Alabama, Columbia University, School of Dental and Oral Surgery (1894)
"Nos. 2 to 6, inclusive, represent the Wood's Bluff series. On the Tombigbee River
the strata between the Wood's Bluff marl and the Bell's Landing marl at ..."
3. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"In its lower course toward its confluence with the Tombigbee River it passes ...
The Tombigbee River is throughout its course, in the State navigable, ..."
4. The Geographical and Historical Dictionary of America and the West Indies by Antonio de Alcedo, George Alexander Thompson (1812)
"... thence a due e. course to the Dan or Tombigbee river ; thence down the middle
of the said river to its junction with the Alabama river ; thence down the ..."
5. Two Wars: an Autobiography of General Samuel G. French ...: Mexican War; War by Samuel Gibbs French (1901)
"... Not Held—My Division at Meridian—President Davis—Jackson Burned—Sherman's
Advance on Meridian—Ordered to Mobile—Polk Crossing Tombigbee River—He Is Slow ..."
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