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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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o the left hand bend, a little above an oldstone mill, here is Brandenburg bar. BRANDENBURGH, left side This is a pleasant little town, built on the side and top of a high hill.Considerable business is done here in exporting tobacco, pork, &c. for♦he southern markets. When you leave the town, keep the middle of the river till you passBuck creek and are opposite a little town called Mock Port. MOCK PORT, right side. Then wear over towards the left shore. Keep down the left shorebelow the gravel bank, then leave the point gradually until you areopposite a high rock on the right, at the upper side of the hollow,then run square in to the mouth of the run, at a hewed log house onthe right; now keep down the shore on the point nearly a mile; youmust then cross over to the left hand bend against a high hill. NORTH HAMPTON, right side You must still keep the left hand shore passing this town and Amster-dam, on the same side about a mile above Indian creek. ;; 12 10 L.in^f^^^- Hamson Cy.
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Hancock Cy. MAP NO. 15.—OHIO RIVER. 57 Directions f07 Map No. 15.—Ohio River, AMSTEUDA:^I, right side Indian Creek, right side. When you reach the left hand point helow Amsterdam, keep into themiddle of the river until entirely round it, and here you are oppositethe head of the upper Blue River Island This island lies close in the right hand bend, the channel to the left.Keep within 100 yards of the left shore, opposite the island, untilagainst a false point on the left, and nearly down to the lower end ofthe island, then incline over to the righi and tolerably close to the barwhich extends from the foot of the island. Now keep straight downuntil you are about 300 yards below the foot of the upper island, thenincline to the left, as if you were going to the left of the lower island,until within 200 yards of the bar making up from the head of it, thenturn and run square in to the rock shore on the right, (this is for avery low stage of water, say three feet,) when the river is thre

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