Kunth was the son of Johann Siegmund Kunth, a senior Protestant minister and hymn writer who died in Baruth in 1779. In 1772, he started attending the upper level of gymnasium in Halle. He then began studying law in Leipzig.
The Mississippi River â Headwaters watershed has approximately 685.05 river miles (NHDPlus - 1:100k source scale, flowline layer) and contains more than 1,000 lakes with a total acreage of 180,375. [[nid:7633]] The Mississippi River - Headwaters watershed consists of 1,255,105 acres (1,961 square miles) in the far north part of the basin. The watershed contains the headwaters of the Mississippi River at Lake Itasca in Itasca State Park.
Allegheny River. 1  The river is approximately 325 miles (523 km) long, running through the U.S. states of New York and Pennsylvania. It drains a rural dissected plateau of 11,580 square miles (30,000 km) in the northern Allegheny Plateau, providing the northeastern most drainage in the watershed of the Mississippi River.