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Title: The navigator : containing directions for navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi rivers ; with an ample account of these much admired waters, from the head of the former to the mouth of the latter ; and a concise description of their towns, villages, harbors, settlements, &c. with maps of the Ohio and Mississippi ; to which is added an appendix, containing an account of Louisiana, and of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, as discovered by the voyage under Capts. Lewis and Clark
Year: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Cramer, Zadok, 1773-1813?
Subjects: Inland navigation
Publisher: Pittsburgh : Cramer & Spear
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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extends out a con-siderable way into the river: vessels, therefore, of any burden maylie here in safety. Should they even get loose from their cables andfastenings, there is no danger of their being carried off by the cur-rent. It is also finely sheltered both from winds and the ice of theriver. It is the landing always made by those who either live at, orwant to stop at Louisville, therefore it may properly be called theLouisville Landing. Boats descending further, and having landedhere, are obliged to row up stream nearly half a mile, (in gentlewater, however,) in order to take the Indian or Northern chute,the pass generally preferred in all stages of the water, except in-deed when the river is very low, when it is not passable Here youprocure a pilot who resides at Louisville, for the boats safe conductover the falls, for which he is allowed by a law of the state two dol-lars, paid by the owner of the boat The same regulations exist asto the pilots at Jeffersonville. 100 NAVIGATOR.
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NAVIGATOR. 101 THE RAPIDS OF OHIO, Arc occasioned by a ledge of rocks which extend quiteacross the river, and are hardly to be perceived by the navi-gator in times of high freshes, unless by the superior velo-city of the boat, which descends over them at the rate of from10 to 13 miles an hour When the water is low, the greaterpart of the rock becomes visible, and it is then that the pas-sage becomes dangerous. There are three channels or passes through the rapids :—The course north or right of No. 62 or Goose island, calledthe Indian chute, is the main channel, but it is not passa-ble in times of low water. ! The course between Nos. 62and 63, Rock and Goose islands, called the Middle chute,is a safe and easy passage in all situations of the water abovethe middling stage. The pass between No. 63, Rock islandand the Kentucky shore, called the Kentucky chute, is lostin Rock harbour, and is passable only in time of high water. Near the bottom on the left side of No. 63 is a fine moor-in

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