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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: 1821 (1820s)
Authors: Cramer, Zadok, 1773-1813?
Subjects: Inland navigation
Publisher: Pittsburgh : Cramer & Spear
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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p in the winters frost Hanging Rock, right side, 4 H57 This rock is called by way of eminence THE LADY WASHING-TON. It shews a bare perpendicular front of solid rock of about100 feet in height commencing at the waters edge. It is the up-per edge of a ridge of high ground, which ends here, extendinghalf a mile on the river, having a flat country above and below it.A small distance above this rock a creek enters on the same sidewijh it. Lady Washington would make a good site for a fort, hav-ing a fine command of the river above and below for several miles.Now ends the river hills, a bluff now and then excepted, and thefiat country commences. Islands No. 68, and No. 69, No 68 lies close to the right shore, just below a point as the riverturns to the right, it is about half a mile long. Xo 69 lies half a milebelow No. 68 also close to the right shore, and is about three mileslong—Channel past both these islands is on the left side of them. Yellow Banks, left side, 5;s6§ K 110 NAVIGATOR
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87^ 877 NAVIGATOR. Ill Half a mile below No. 69, and five miles from the head of No.68. A frontier post was kept here until Waynes treaty at Green-ville, in 1794 A small creek enters just below the buildings atthe Yellow Banks. This place took its name from the yellow ap-pearance of the bank of the river. Island, No. 70,Lies close to the left shore, is about one mile and a half long. Chan-nel right side. JMisletoe (r) begins to appear in bunches on the top branches ofthe trees. Islands Nos. 71 and 72, Lie pretty close to the right shore, No. 71 is a mile and a halflong, No. 72 is small, and lies to the left and half way down No. 7(.Channel to the left of both these islands. Below Nos. 71 and 72vou have a fine view of the river for several miles. French island, No. 73, Channel left side. Not far from this island and about seven milesabove Green river, there is seen on the right side, a high roundknob of a hill, where formerly a Frenchman kept a trading house.It is now called French Cam

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