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Show !72 EMIGRAN'l,S GUIDE. From New-York to New-Orleans, by Pittsburg, and by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Miles. PITTSBURG • . 36~ (See No. ·12, page 46, Nos. 13 and 14, page 47, No. 27, page 154, No. 28, p~ge 155, and No. 29, page 156.) NATCHEZ (see No. 28, page 155.) lol31l982 NEW-ORLEANS (see the preceding tables) 22312205 The sta.tionary distances on the IVIississippi river, marked in No. 2S, page 15, and those upon the Ohio, in No. 29, page 156, falls short of any estimateu distance yet published, of either of those rivers. In the early period of navigating streams, their length has in most instances been over-rated considerably. As it respects facility of gaining a passage from l)ittsburg to any given pla~e ~elow tbat city, the spring months are the most favourable ; but 1t JS also the most dangerous season to descend the l\fi ss i~sippi river. For persons who intend visiting any psrt of the United States, west of the Aleghany mountains, below 38° N. lat. the month of October or Noveklber affords the safest season. Iu most y ears there is a swell in the Ohio in one of those two months; this river but seldom closes with ice before the middle of Decembe r, and perhaps two winters in three not before the beginning of January. The strictest attention to the soundness of the materials and the solidity of the workmanship of the boats is indispens able. Most of the accidents which happen upon the waters of the Mississippi arise from insufficient boats. This is the more inexcusable, since of aiJ the Tessels made to float on water, th ere ~ re none in the construction of which so little need be sacrifimed to lightness, as in the arks, made to float upGn the various streams of the western states. When made from good timber and plank , and skilfully formed, the ark is a pleasant and safe vessel in which to descend a river. Floating in the night, and particularly in the :Mississi ppi, is a very reprehensible practice, that nothing but necessity can excuse. Even the steam-boats ought to anchor at night above Natchez ; below that city the river becomes Jess incumbered with timber, and below the effiux of Atchafalaya few snsgs exist in the stream. Steam· boats h ~ve, upon the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, reduced the time and adJed much to the pleasure and convenience of travelling .. These useful vessels are increasing annually ;-it is prob~ble that, m 1820, th irty steam-boats will be in operation between P1tts~ burg, St. Louis, and New-Orleans. Annunciations are now made in the Kentucky papers, of arrivals from New Orleans of merchandise by the various steam-boats, in less than eme· third the time formerly demanded to complete similar voyage:3 by barges: Virtually, the contiguity of New Orleans to the. Western states is diminished at least one-half by the substitution of the impulsion of steam for that of manual labour.-See Appeudix No. XI. EMIGRANT's GUIDE 272 No. 46,. From the S. V{. to theN. E. corner of the State of Ohio. Miles. From Mouth of Great Miam~ to North Bend Cincinnati Lebanon Sprin gfield Grayum's Franklinton Worthiogton Byseby Fredericktown Greene Jerome Northampton Boston Cleveland Grand river Harpersfield Litchfield J,\1. of Conneought To Reading Price's Lebanon Waynesville Xenia Y el1ow Springs Springfield Urbana .. - - ... - -.. - .. - No. 47. From Cincinnati to Urbana. -- - No. 48. From Chilicothe to Cincinnati. Bainbridge Forks of the Road Newmarket Will iamsbu rgh Cincinnati Adelphi Collen's He wet's Harper's Athens John Brown's Ewing's No. 49. :From Cbilicothe to Marietta. ,.. -. .. .. 35 • 7 7 16 23 .3] 54 44 93 17 115 25 140 !1 149 16 165 24 189 15 <t04 9 213 47 ~6 0 6 ~ 6 6 24 290 32 ~~2 17 . 33Q 27 3G6 7; 373 10 10 '7 17 14 31 10 41 14 55 9 64 9 73 14 87 18 18 6 24 18 42 22 64 30 94 14 14 10 24 25 49 7 56 2 58 9 67 11 7B • |