Dickens asserted that your physical and moral foundations were insecurely laid.

Russell did not praise you, and Trollope uttered much to your discredit.

Your musquitos are large, numerous, and hungry.

Your atmosphere does not resemble the spicy breezes that blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle.

Your energy and enterprise are commendable, and your geographical location is excellent, but you can never become a rival to Saratoga or Newport.
Cairo is built in a basin formed by constructing a levee to inclose the peninsula at the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.
Before the erection of the levee, this peninsula was overflowed by the rise of either river.