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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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ther bottoms along the river, andthere is reason to believe that the seasons of high waters and hardwinters are again returning to the western country, which for twentyyears or more absented themselves to some other clime. Thesame thing is observed of the risings of the Mississippi, which de-fends for its floods altogether on those of the northern rivers. Fortyor fifty years ago, it was observed by an old inhabitant of Louisiana,that the Mississippi began to decrease in its risings, and continuedto decrease gradually for twenty years, and these last twenty years,it has been observed by a gentleman of accuracy, to increase yearlyand by such gradual steps as not to be generally noticed, in conse-quence the banks have, within ten years back, got a considerablepopulation, which is now obliged to retreat, half ruined, and aban-don totally the fertile farms formed with much labour and difficulty.In the risings of the Mississippi in 1811, the inhabitants were ranch G 2 78 NAVIGATOR. Marietta
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NAVIGATOR. Injured, kut in 1813 all have been obliged to fly except those protec-ted by strong levees, and many of these suffered from the leveesgiving way. In this year the river at Natchez was higher by abouteighteen inches than in 1811, and in consequence the losses of cropsand stock have been beyond calculation. One million of dollarsworth of corn, cotton and stock are the estimated losses of thecounty of Concordia, and this is not the greatest loss, for the wholeof the inundated lands are now considered as not worth possessing,which three or four years ago were thought to be invaluable, andselling at great prices. I mention this circumstance of the south asadmonitory to the inhabitants bordering the northern rivers. The first sea vessel on the western waters was a brig called theSt. Clair, of 120 tons burden, built at Marietta by Commodore Pre-ble in 1798 or 99, who descended the Ohio and Mississippi in her,went to the Havanna, and thence to Philadelphia, where he soldher. Zanesv

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