. Personal narrative of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky : and of a residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817-1818 . ^;-^-. Cincinnati 187 be less than 700 yards. Its annual range from highto low water is 50 feet — its extreme range 7 feetmore. It may be forded in many places aboveLouisville when the water is at the lowest stage;but between these bars, which form slight rapids,there are basins of deep water many miles long. It is frozen over at Pittsburg almost every win-ter— sometimes at Cincinnati — I believe never atShawanoe. Generally navigation is stopt
. Personal narrative of travels in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky : and of a residence in the Illinois Territory: 1817-1818 . ^;-^-. Cincinnati 187 be less than 700 yards. Its annual range from highto low water is 50 feet — its extreme range 7 feetmore. It may be forded in many places aboveLouisville when the water is at the lowest stage;but between these bars, which form slight rapids,there are basins of deep water many miles long. It is frozen over at Pittsburg almost every win-ter— sometimes at Cincinnati — I believe never atShawanoe. Generally navigation is stopt by float-ing ice 8 or 10 weeks. ^ The Ohio river is not generally a picturesque ob-ject. It addresses itself powerfully to the imagina-tion, but not to the senses. Its banks are clothedwith dark forests. Here and there a small cabinpeeps from the trees. Sometimes the rocks risearound you in solemnity and gloom — but at oneplace only, at the falls, do your eyes glance over anyexpanse of country. Nevertheless, I am more happy, more self-satis-fied, on the banks of the Ohio, than ever I couldhave been on the fair plains of Old England. Theforests
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