near latitude 36, in North Carolina, and flows through Virginia.' 

 Course northerly, otic hundreed and seventy five miles, reaj 

 course very crooked, about two hundred and seventy miles or 

 three hundred and fifteen English miles. It joins the Ohio a^^ 

 Point Pleasant. It is a fine, navigable and broad river, with ma- 

 ny branches. 



8. Big Guyandot. It rises in the Cumberland Mountains, 

 and runs N. through Virginia, emptying itself at Guyandot , 

 It is navigable sixty miles; length seventy miles, real course' 

 one hundred miles, or about one hundred and twenty English 

 miles. 



9. Sandy River. Rises also in the Cumberland Mountains 

 near the 37th degree of latitude, and separates Virginia from 

 Kentucky. It is a large but shallow river, with three branches^ 

 Common course north, ninety miles in length, natural course 

 one hundred and twenty five miles, or one hundred and forty six 

 English miles. It is also called Tottery river and Big Sandy. 



10. Scioto. It flows through the state ot Ohio, rising in a 

 Morass of the Ohio ridge or table land, near latitude 40 1-2. Ij 

 empties near Portsmouth after a southerly course of one hun- 

 dred and ten miles, real course about one hundred and ninety 

 jniles or two hundred and twelve English miles. It is naviga- 

 ble one hundred and thirty miles, and is four hundred and fifty 

 feet broad at the mouth. It has many bars and snags, but no 

 falls. Its four principal branches are Whetstone river. Paint, 

 Darby, and Walnut creeks. It had lakes formerly. 



11. Little Miami. Runs through Ohio in a S. S. W. di- 

 rection of sixty miles, natural course one hundred miles or one 

 hundred and fifteen English miles. It is not navigable. It joins 

 the Ohio rear Columbia and has several small branches. Near 

 its head, it runs for a mile through a narrow chasm, with suc- 

 cessive 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 hard_ 

 ly navigable, and winds very much. It empties between New- 

 port and Covington, opposite Cincinnati. Real course about 

 three hundred miles or nearly three hundred and fifty English 

 miles. 



