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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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he left shore; and when youare past the bar, keep to the right, to avoid the bar at the mouth ofTurtle creek, on the left, about two miles below. MECHANICSBURGH, on the right There is a large bar opposite Mechanicsburgh. Channel to the left,and when past it, keep the middle of the river NEVILLE, right side MOSCOW, right side POINT PLEASANT, on the right NEW RICHMOND, right side, Is post town in Clermont county. It contains about 100 houses and500 inhabitants, and has three or four stores. There is a large bar on the left, above IVew Richmond, which throwsits channel pretty close to the right shore, from one and a half milesabove until you pass the town then incline to the left, to avoid a smallbar at the mouth of Twelve Mile creek. Muddy Creek, right side. There is a bar in the middle of the river, opposite to Muddy creek.Best channel to the left. Two miles below this, is another low bar inthe middle of the river. Channel either side.4 4321 4351 4391 44214451 4481453J 4591 Higginsport
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€rawfi6h Cr MAP NO. 11.—OHIO RIVER. Xittle Miami, right side. This stream rises in IMadison county, Ohio; traverses Clark, Green,IVanen, and Hamilton counties and enters the Ohio seven miles aboveCincinnati. It flows through a very fertile country, and has about fiftynill seats upon its banks, which makes it a river of great utility,^bout seventy miles from its mouth, and in the neighborhood of theiTellow Springs, are singular falls, where the river, in a short dis-ance, falls two hundred feet. These falls have cut a narrow channel,0 a great depth, through solid rock, or cliff, of limestone, which areovered with cedar, hemlock, and other evergreens. In some places,he stream is so contracted that a person can almost leap from oneank to the other. The depth of the water, in some places in thishannel, has never been sounded. The high, picturesque, and perpen-icular walls on each side of the foaming stream,—the wild and gro-esque appearance of the rocks, and the noise of the falling

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