. 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 . hither; and for fruits and vegetables,few places can exceed it. The police of the city are at once mild and energetic. Notwith-standing the multif
. 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 . hither; and for fruits and vegetables,few places can exceed it. The police of the city are at once mild and energetic. Notwith-standing the multifarious character of the people, collected from everycountry and every climate; the number of sailors andboatmen, and the incongruous crowd which rushes along the streets,there are fewer riots and quarrels here than in almost any other municipal and criminal courts are prompt in administering city contains 10 2,198 inhabitants, 15,000 houses. Battle Ground, left side English Turn Poverty Point, left side Wilkinsons, right side. Directions for Maps JSos. 22, and 23.—Missis-sippi River, Johnsons, right side. Grand Prairie, left side. Fort St. Philip, left side. Fort Jackson, right side. South West Pass, on the right Pass au IOutre, on the left Balize, right side Bar atihe S. E. „ 61220 7 710 10 20 3^ Johnsons D = Grand Prarie MISSISSIPPINo. 22 Fort St. Phillip FortJacKsofl MISSISSIPPI No. MISSISSIPPI RIVER. We have reserved for this place, the description of the Mississippi and Missouri Bivere^extracted from Flikts Geography and History of the Westerx States. The Mississippi commences in many branches, that rise, for the most part, in wildrice lakes; but it traverses no great distance before it has become a broad stream^Sometimes, in its beginnings, it moves a wide expanse of waters, with a currentscarcely perceptible, along a marshy bed. At others, its fishes are seen darting overa while sand, in waters almost as transpare
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