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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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oint opposite Evansville, then keepnear the middle until opposite the head of dry bar under the point©Q the left, then go in towards it, then turn and go over towards thesteam mill, below the town. EVANSVILLE, right side.Pigeon Creek, right side. When one an a half miles below Pigeon, at the point and rocks onthe right, go over to the left, keep down near the left shore to the pointon the left; then go into the middle of the river, keep it around thepoint and bear on the left to avoid some rocks and logs in the bend onthe right, under water. When up with the right hand point make along crossing to within 200 yards of the left shore opposite a house©n your left and big bar on your right, then straighten down; dontgo near the shore until you get 300 yards further down, then keepnearest that shore until you get to HENDERSONVILLE, left side Henderson, or Red Bank Island €hannel to the right, you keep down in the middle of the river until 796 798 8i1 806,807, 103; 8171821 jr<»«! R
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«4 MAP NO. 17.—OHIO RIVER. you are nearly a mile above the island ; then wear in to the right untilwithin 150 yards of the shore, then wear off slowly to the left until youare near the middle, and within 100 yards of the wooden dam thatruns from the right shore quartering down towards the foot of theisland, then make square in for th« island about 200 yards above itsfoot, keep within 100 yards of this the big left hand bend to its foot ifyou choose, then wear off into the right hand bend, dont run it quite soclose, and when you are at the point on the right, keep near the rightshore around it and close in opposite the head of Diamcmd Island . This is a large island in the middle of the river. The channel is to theright of it and near the main shore from the head to the foot, you thenmake quslte a long cros«ir>g into the left ^hand bend below,^keep close inthis bend for about one mile to a false point on the left, then makea long crossing, so that you will be within two hundred

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