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 CaptsLewis and Clark . dt* e IJig Sciota, O a high bank, and in :> fine and exten-sive lyittom offM-tile land. It is
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 CaptsLewis and Clark . dt* e IJig Sciota, O a high bank, and in :> fine and exten-sive lyittom offM-tile land. It is in Sciota county, Ohio, and a])-pear.« to be thriving froru the newness of several of itf- buiiiliegs,of w^ich, it containK about :0, som* ne;.tly built with briek twostoi s, three taverns, one warehouse. The laiid jfrrm ihe lower enil of the town !>. comes low and continues sn f I^t. Sciota, in coisetjuence, it is sulject to the floods of the ri> jers Go<KlsiMtend;d for the Sciota country, ai-e deposted he^ |jp .. ^^ bouses suited to rece])tion thence they are ship^ .;• p rticu-s respecting this grant, called the Frer^ Granf, see«Ot,e L^] Appendix, 346350 358.^64 37S?o80 386390 98 NAVIGATOK. up that river hi keel boats.—The Sciota Salt-works are about 20miles N. E. tVom Portsmouth. ALEXANDRIAStands on a fine high bank, just beloA\ the Sciota river. It is alsoin Sciota county, contains 15 or 20 houses, a stone house tavern,nnd several new buildings appear going up. *• Ihe situation of these villages, Avith the high and conic formedhills on the opposite side of the river, faced with towering per-l)CMidicular rocks, v hose summits bear a thin growth of pine,hemlock, &c.—these, combined with the beauty of the Ohio,V ith its serpentine wuidings—altogether present a scene to thepassing observer, M once subUme and highly interesting. Channel past Portsmouth is near the middle of the river. Ontlie left side of the Ohio opposite the S
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