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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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ver, The towhead on the large bar on the right, is about the middle of theliver. Channel to the left; and when up with the left hand point be-low, incline over towards the right shore, near a small towhead onthe lower extremity of the bar, to avoid a large bar on the left. No. 74, Just below the right hand point. A large bar makes up from the headof No. 74, and to the left of it. Channel to the left. Arkansas River, right side;—and town of NA-POLEON, Situated immediately at and below the mouth of Arkansas river; thisis a flourishing little place andbidsfairto become a town of importance.This river, from which the Arkansas Territory takes its name, is, nextto Missouri, the largest western tributary of the Mississippi. Thelength of this mighty stream, which is said to meander a long dis-tance in the Rockey Mountains, following its courses, is about 2000miles. It pours a broad and deep stream from the mountains upon thearid and saady plains below. The sand and the dry surrounding 12 20
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KM MAP NO. 12.—MISSISSIPPI RIVER. atmosphere absorb the water to such a degree, that in many seasonsit may be forded many hundred miles below the mountains. Someof its tributaries are so impregnated with salt, as to render even thewaters of the main stream unpotable. The alluvial earth along itsbanks contains so much salt, that cattle are said sometimes to be killedby eating it. To the distance of about 400 miles from its mouth, ithas many lakes and bayous. In the spring floods, steam boats canascend it nearly to the mountains. Little Rock, or Ackropolis, is situated about 300 miles, by thecourse of the river, and about 120 by land, above the mouth of theArkansas. It is a military post, and the seat of government for theterritory. It stands on the south bank, on a very high stone bluff, andhas been ironically named Little Rock, from the prodigious size andmasses of rock about it. The situation is healthy and pleasant, andbeing the metropolis, a considerable village has grown up here

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