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go, Tobas, &c. It is navigable throughout, and its stream is 

 gentle and clear. 



2. MoNONGAHELA. Risos in the Alleghany mountains of 

 Virginia, near latitude 38. Direct course N. and 150 miles, 

 in the natural course 210 miles, or 245 English miles. It has 

 three great branches, of which the Yohogheny is the principal. 

 Its breadth at Pittsburgh is 1350 feet, being wider aud deeper 

 than the Alleghany. It flows in a deep valley, is subject o 

 sudden rises, and has a turbid but navigable stream. 



3. Mahoning or Big Beaver. Rises near Lake Erie, in 

 latitude 42, and runs south through Pennsylvania, emptying on 

 the right side of the Ohio, of which it is one of the smallest 

 branches, and is even sometimes called a Crc^k, altho'igh its 

 direct course is 80 miles long, and the natural nearly 140, or a- 

 bout 163 English miles, being very crooked; but it is shallow, 

 full of falls, and hardly navigable. It is formed by the junction 

 of the Shenango and Neshanock. 



4. Muskingum. It flows through the state of Ohio, in a 

 southerly direction, about 100 miles, but being very winding 

 its natural course is 150 miles or about 175 English miles It 

 rises in a small lake of the Ohio ridge, which separates the ba- 

 son of the Ohio from that of Lake Erie, near the 41nt degree of 

 latitude, and it joins the Ohio at Marietta. It is a large and 

 navigable river, although it has a large rapid or fall at Zanes-^ 

 villc and some other smaller rapids elsewhere. At the mouth 

 it is 750 feet wide. It flows through a large valley, and receives 

 four or five large branches, called Wills, Licking, Mohecan, 

 he, 



5\ Little Kenhaway. It rises in the Laurel hills, and flows 

 through Virginia in a N. W. course of 90 miles, or 140 in a 

 natural course, equal to about 163 English rniles. It empties at 

 Parkenburg, is partly msvigable and has several small branches. 



6. Hockhocking. Flows through Ohio. Direction, S. E. 

 length seventy five miles, by the real course one hundred and 

 twenty five, or about one hundred and forty English miles. It is 

 a deep but narrow stream, navigable however as far as ihe two 

 cascades. It had lakes formerly. 



7. Great Kenhaway, Rises in the Alleghany Mountainsi* 



