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Title: The western pilot : containing charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico ; accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a gazetteer ; or description of the towns on their banks, tributary streams, etc., also, a variety of matter interesting to travelers, and all concerned in the navigation of those rivers ; with a table of distances from town to town on all the above rivers
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Cumings, Samuel Ross, Charles Derek Klinefelter, John
Subjects: Inland navigation
Publisher: Cincinnati : George Conclin
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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right There is an ugly rocky bar on the right, commencing nearly a mileabove the Little Scioto, and extending more than a mile below it.Channel one-third from the left shore. Tygers Creek, left side PORTSMOUTH, right side. Portsmouth, the chief town of Scioto county, stands on the Ohioshore, just above the mouth of the Scioto river. The Ohio canal hereenters the river. This canal unites the waters of the Ohio with LakeErie; and by means of the Lake and the grand New York canal, awater communication is opened between the Mississippi and its tribu-taries, and the city of New York. The waters of the Mississippi, theWisconsin, the Illinois, the Missouri, with all its navigable tributa-•ies; the Arkansas, Red River, the Ohio, the Tennessee, the Cumber-land, the Wabash, the Kentucky, the Miami, the Scioto, the Ken-hawa, the Alleghany, and the Monongahela, all great and navigablerivets, with many others of less note, may be made to communicate 324i 10 334^ 10 343^ 35313551 360J Storm a Cr.
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MAP NO. S —OHIO RIVP)R. 33 with this canal, forming an inland navigation of above 8,000 miles !!The trade and productions of the immense country watered by theserivers, extending from the Alleghany to the Rocky Mountains, andfrom the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico,—floating from different direc-tions, and even from different climates,—can all concentrate at themouth of the Ohio canal at Portsmouth. And much of it undoubtedlywill. A vast amount of commission business must, in consequence,be done here. It is also well situated for the internal commerce ofthe state. Its growth must be rapid, to keep pace with the businesswhich must naturally accumulate here. It has now a bank, courthouse, printing office, and the usual number of public buildings,stores, and mechanics shops, for towns of the size. It probably con-tains above 4000 inhabitants. It is 45 miles, by land, south of Chil-licothe, and 90 from Columbus. Scioto River, on the right.. The Scioto river rises in the northern part of

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