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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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into the middle of the river. Nine Mile, or Vevay Island Channel to the left. After passing the island, incline towards the rightshore. VEVAY, right side This tow^n, the seat of justice for Switzerland county, is situatedon the Indiana shore, 70 miles below Cincinnati. It contains above100 houses, 1000 inhabitants, a court house, an academy, a printingoffice, and a number of stores. This interesting town was settledin 1804, by a number of Swiss families, to whom Congress made afavorable grant of land, for the purpose of commencing the culti-vation of the grape. The colony soon received a considerableaddition to their numbers, from the mountains of Switzerland ;and, in remembrance of their native country, they called their townVevay. They immediately made experiments upon a large scale,in the cultivation of the grape. This cultivation has been car-ried on until the present time. The only wine grape which hasbeen found to- succeed well, is called the (Jape Grape, from which a 11 2 546^
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< e MAP NO. 12.—OHIO RIVER. 47 considerable quantity of a wine, somewliat resembling claret, is annu-ally made. The inhabitants are simple, amiable, and industrious,and happily unite the gaiety of the French with the industry of theGermans. Opposite to Vevay, is a very large sand bar, which throws the chan-nel very close to the right shore, opposite to the town. Be carefulof a small bar on the right, just above the town. When you havepassed the town, incline out to the middle of the river. There is abar in the middle of the river, three and a half miles below Vevay.Channel to the risrht. Kentucky Eiver, left side. This beautiful river rises in the Cumberland mountains, and inter-locks with the head waters of the Licking and the Cumberland rivers.Its length is about two hundred miles. It is navigable for flat boatsand small craft a hundred and fifty miles, and for steam boats, in goodstages of water, as high as Frankfort. It has a rapid current, and veryhigh banks. For a great par

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