ee 3 Steam Boats.—Sun-fish Creek. 
Instead of one immense boiler, the boats now carry from four to six 
of a moderate capacity. The engineers are better educated, and 
are often chosen from among the architects of the boats. The boats 
now employed on the river between Louisville and Pittsburgh, 
amount to nearly one hundred. Many of these are kept in the best 
order, and for neatness and accommodation, may be safely compared 
with any boats in Americas The crews are subjected to much 
more strict discipline, since that lawless, independent, but hardy race 
of keel-boat-men, from whom the hands were formerly chosen, have 
disappeared from our waters. The genteel manners and civil de- 
portment of most of the passengers, have alsoa silent, but a sure and 
perceptible influence on the manners of the crew. Good habits, as 
well as bad, are easily adopted; and, above all, the banishment of 
whiskey, that bane of the west, from many of the boats, is doing still 
more than all other causes combined, for the epi of mor- 
als, as well as of manners. 
Sun-fish Creek.—At nine o’clock this morning, the boat passed the 
mouth of Sun-fish Creek, a small stream falling into the Ohio from the 
right bank. The hills here are nearly three hundred feet high, much 
broken and divided by deep ravines into isolated masses. They are 
now clothed to their very summits with the richest verdure of the for- 
est, and at this season are displaying the various tints of the different 
species that cluster around their sides—the pure white of the Cornus 
florida, and the rich pink of the Celtis Ohioensis, now in full bloom, 
appears beautifully contrasted with the rich green of the wood- 
lands. For the painter, this spot affords some of the finest views 
that are to be found on the Ohio. The river makes an abrupt bend 
opposite the mouth of the creek, and opens an extensive perspec- 
tive of the richest scenery, both up and down the stream. The 
creek itself is lined with beautiful hills and shady ravines, some of 
which have given employment to the pencil of Mr. Sullivan, who 
has produced several masterly pieces taken from this vicinity. He is 
almost the only painter who has taken living views from the enchant- 
ing landscapes of the Ohio, ‘This summer he proposes visiting the 
cliffs of New River and the valley of the Greenbrier, where some of 
the most sublime and grand scenery has rested for ages, unnoticed 
and unknown, except to the passing traveller, or the hunter, while 
chasing the deer amidst these lovely solitudes. No country possesses 
more rich or varied scenery, than the mountain regions on the trib- 
utary streams of the Ohio; in grandeur they may be excelled by the 
alpine groups of the globe, but in loveliness they are not surpassed. 
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