so 



small lake, full of rocky islands and rapids, and are a great impedi- 

 ment to navigation. It was formerly called the Cherokee riv- 



SMALLER BRANCHES. 



The fifty foiur small rivers and large creeks, flowing into the 

 Ohio are the following, of which thirty three empty on the right 

 and twenty one on the left. They are all over thirty miles long 

 in their natural course. 



In Pennsylvania, 3. Right bank, Little Beaver; and on the 

 ^eftbank Chartier's Creek, Raccoon Creek. 



In Ohio, 17. Big Yellow creek, Warren creek, Indian Wheel- 

 ing creek, Captina creek, Sunfish creek, Opossum creek, Lit- 

 tle Muskingum river, Duck creek. Shade river, Kaygers creek^ 

 Campaign creek, Raccoon creek, Symmes' creek, Brush creeky 

 Little Scioto river. Eagle creek, White Oak creek. 



In Virginia, 7. Short creek, Wheeling creek. Big Grave 

 creek, Fishing creek. Stony creek, Big Sandy creek. Little Guy- 

 andot river. 



In Kentucky, 12. Little Sandy river, Tygert creek, Kinni, 

 conick. Gunpowder creek, Bigbone creek, Harrod creek. Bear- 

 grass creek, Otter creek, Sinking creek, Blackford creek, High 

 land creek, Tradewater river. 



In Indiana, 12. Tanner's creek, Houghan creek, Loughery 

 creek, Indian Kentucky, Silver creek. Buck creek, Coi'ydon 

 creek. Big Blue river. Little Blue river, Anderson river. Little 

 Pigeon creek. Big Pigeon creek. 



In Illinois, 3. Lusk's creek, Bigbury creek, Cash river. 



FISPIES OF THE OHIO. 

 FIRST PART. THORACIC FISHES. 



Having complete gills, with a gill cover, and a branchial mem, 

 brane. Lower or ventral fins situated on the breast or thorax, 

 under the pectoral or lateral fins. 



1 Genus. Perch. Perca. Perche. 



Body elliptical, scaly; head without scales, mouth large, jaws 

 >vith unequal acute teeth, gill cover with a serrate prcopercule 



