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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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the left shore, until you pass the creek, then keepto the right. Pikes Island. Channel to the right. Twin Islands. Channel to the right of both islands. Keep near the right shore,round the bar at the head of the first, then incline tow^ards the islandopposite the mouth of a small run ; then keep close to the island tothe lower end, then wear out to about midway between the shoreand the island, and run down till you are near the foot of the secondtwin, then wear in and keep two thirds of the river on your rightuntil you are opposite the lower end of Burlington, on the rightshore; then quartering across till within 100 yards of the Ohio shore,keep down half a mile, and then take the middle of the river. WHEELING, on the left Wheeling is the seat of justice for Ohio county, Virginia. It is sit-uated a little above Wheeling creek, a considerable stream, whichtraverses a fine rich country, and puts into the Ohio just below. Thetown is surrounded by bold and precipitous hills, which contain
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MAP NO. 3.-.0HI0 RIVER. 17 exhaustless quantities of coal, and which approach the river so nearas to leave rather a small area for the town. The great national lOad,from Baltimore, crosses the Ohio at this place. It is alreadycompleted as far as Zanesville; and is contemplated to be extendedthrough the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, to St. Louis, inMissouri. The channel of the Ohio becomes deeper below Wheeling, in somuch, that steam boats continue to run as high as this place, whenthey cannot ascend the river above; and it affords a certain navigation^or flats and keel boats, in the lowest stages of water. A numberof mail stages arrive and depart here; and good public roads connectIt with Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and the interior of Ohioand Virginia. These circumstances, united to its very favorable positionon the Ohio, give to Wheeling many advantages, and have tendedgreatly to accelerate its growth. It contains about 10,0C0 inhabitants,has about 2000 dwelling ho

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