The Ohio and Mississippi Navigator Comprising an Ample Account of Those Beautiful Rivers, From the Head of the Former, to the Mouth of the Latter Classic Reprint

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Woodenjfla'nds, are places'where by fome czuf'e or other; large quantities'ofdrift wooc}, has throngl}: time, been arretted and mattei together in different a palm; of the river.exertion by holding fall to the limbs which furround You Th'i banks of this river i from where it receives the: _m.ltouri to its mouth, being with a few exceptions 'below high water mark, an immenfe country is inundated; when the river is in its higheft date, by which thofe extenfive fwampa are formed and tops. Plied, which prove the nurferies of myriades of muf quitces and other infects (to the no final] inconveni ence of the traveller) and the never failing Tcurce of difeafes to the inhabitants. There are alto which at all times faliy forth from the main river, with afionilhing _rapidity, and where vortex extends tome dtltance into the dream. Boats once zfucked into fuch a buyo areinext to loft, it being almofi impoiii ble to force to unwieldy a machine as a flat bottomed boat againlt fo powerful a current. It will therefore, be fafeft for boats, never to keep too clofe to lhore, but to keep fome dtfiance out in the river. To avoid planters and Lawyers requires nothing more but attention, for they always occafion a fmall breaker where ever they are, and if your boat: feems to be hurried towards thembyou mutt the moment you perceive them row the boat from them, 'elfe if you are dilatory you mutt abide by the confe quence.

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