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Title: The navigator : containing directions for navigating the Monongahela, Allegheny, Ohio and Mississippi Rivers ; with an ample account of these much admired waters, from the head of the former to the mouth of the latter ; and a concise description of their towns, villages, harbors, settlements, &c. ; with maps of the Ohio and Mississippi ; to which is added an appendix, containing an account of Louisiana, and of the Missouri and Columbia Rivers, as discovered by the voyage under Capts. Lewis and Clark
Year: 1817 (1810s)
Authors: Cramer, Zadok, 1773-1813
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Publisher: Pittsburgh : Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum Robert Ferguson & Co., printers
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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d so firm and com-pact in soine places that cattle and horses are driven over it.This astonisyUng biidge is constantly augmented by the treesand nibbish which the Chaffalio draws out of the Mississippi,•which it leaves in the westernmost part of that remarknble bendjust below the boundary, and has every appearance of havingbeen formerly a continuation of the Red river, when the INIississip-pi washed the highlands fromClarksville to the Bayou Tunica,(or Willings creek,) the traces of which are yet visible by thelakes through which a large current passes when the ri\er ishigh. The distance on a straight line from Clarksville to theBayou Tunica is not more than eight miles, but by the presentcourse of the river it is about fifty. Three Sisters, Islands No3. 119, 120 & 121, n No. 119 is nearest the left shore, 120 lies to the right of it, and121 still further to the right, close in a bend on the right shore;channel past these is al;yaya on *he left in low water, may go 1^ NAVIGATOKi
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PwTvt Coupee C\rTth Fausse R NAVIGATOR. 19; between U9 and 120 ia high il(X);ls; tls river here io strui^Ltfor several miles. No. 119 is about 3 miles long. Bajoa Tunica, below thQ Three Sisters, ^ Is a s.Tiall creek emptying in on the left si le, on which are con-siderable settlements, cotton farms, kc. Island No. 122, 6 miles below Bajou Tunica, Lies in the middle of the river, may pass on either side. Tunica village, 4 miles below No. 12^3, . Is situ:ited on the left bank of the river, which foi about 30miles above has been forming nearly a complete cii-cle, andnow comes within one mile and a half of the current wliere itruns nearly in an opposite direction. This is called the T.hancaBeiul. Point Coupee Church, 12 Stands on the right bank, and opposite on the left side, Bajou Sara empties in. About y miles up tliis creek is a beautirul sotth;raent, cottongrows here in great perfection; David Bradford; Esq. fornicrlyof Pennsylvania, lesided here. A sand bar opposite Bajou Sara. Pass

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