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branches are Whetstone river, Paint, Darby, and 

 Walnut creeks. It had lakes formerly. 



11. Little Miami. Runs through Ohio in a S. 

 S. W. direction of sixty miles, natural course one 

 hundred miles or one hundred and fifteen English 

 miles. It is not navigable. It joins the Ohio near 

 Columbia and has several small branches. Near its 

 head, it runs for a mile through a narrow chasm, 

 with successive falls of two hundred feet. 



12. Licking River. It flows through Kentucky 

 in a N. W. course of one hundred and sixty miles, 

 rising in the Cumberland Mountains, near latitude 

 37. It has two great branches, is hardly navigable, 

 and winds very much. It empties between Newport 

 and Covington, opposite Cincinnati. Real course 

 about three hundred miles or nearly three hundred 

 and fifty English miles. 



[I. 366] [z^*] 13. Great Miami. It rises in the 

 Ohio ridge, near latitude 40 1-2 and flows through 

 Ohio in a S. S W. direction, dividing that state from 

 Indiana at its mouth, near Lawrenceburgh. Com- 

 mon course one hundred and ten miles, real course 

 one hundred and eighty, or about two hundred and 

 ten English miles. Its current is very rapid, and 

 diflicult to ascend. It has four principal branches, 

 such as Mad river, Whitewater, &c. The mouth is 

 six hundred feet wide, and its valley is very large. 

 It was for[m]erly called Rocky river. 



14. Kentucky. This fine river gives its name 

 to the state throughout which it flows, in a N W. 

 direction. It rises in the Cumberland Mountains, 

 near the 37th degree of latitude, a high spot from 

 which the Tennessee, Cumberland, Licking, &c. flow 

 westward. Common course 180 miles, real course 



