. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 454 AUDUBON Boats. Tons. Trips. Ton$. i823i from Jan. I to Dec. 31, 42 7860 98 ' 1824, " " " Nov. 25, 36 6393 118 20,291 1825, " " " Aug. IS, 42 7484 140 24,102 1826, " " " Dec. 31, 51 9386 182 28,914 The amount for the present year will be much greater than any of the above. The number of flatboats and keel- boats is beyond calculation. The number of steamboats above the Falls I cannot say much about, except that one or two arrive at and leave Louisville every d
. Audubon and his journals [microform]. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 454 AUDUBON Boats. Tons. Trips. Ton$. i823i from Jan. I to Dec. 31, 42 7860 98 ' 1824, " " " Nov. 25, 36 6393 118 20,291 1825, " " " Aug. IS, 42 7484 140 24,102 1826, " " " Dec. 31, 51 9386 182 28,914 The amount for the present year will be much greater than any of the above. The number of flatboats and keel- boats is beyond calculation. The number of steamboats above the Falls I cannot say much about, except that one or two arrive at and leave Louisville every day. Their passage from Cincinnati is commonly fourteen or sixteen hours. The " Tecumseh," a boat which runs between this place and New Orleans, which is of 210 tons, arrived here on the loth inst. in nine days, seven hours, from port to port; and the "Philadelphia," of 300 tons, made the passage in nine days, nine and a half hours, the computed distance being 1650 miles. These are the quickest trips made. There are now in operation on the v/aters west of the Alleghany Mountains 140 or 150 boats. We had last spring (1826) a very high freshet, which came four and a half feet deep in the counting-room. The rise was 57 feet 3 inches ; All the steamboats of which this is an account did not perform voyages to New Orleans only, but to all points on the Mississippi, and other rivers which fall into it. I am certain that since the above date the number has increased, but to what extent I cannot at present say. When steamboats first plied between Shippingport and New Orleans, the cabin passage was a hundred dollars, and a hundred and fifty dollars on the upward voyage. In 1829, I went down to Natchez from Shippingport for twenty-five dollars, and ascended from New Orleans on board the "Philadelphia," in the beginning of January, 1830, for sixty dollars, having taken two state-rooms for my wife and myself On that voyage we met with a tri- f
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