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him his household goods and implements of hus 

 bandry ; and even such cumbrous articles as wagons, 

 or, if he was rich and ambitious, the lumber where 

 with to build a frame house. All kinds of craft 

 were used, even bark canoes and pirogues, or dug 

 outs; but the keel-boat, and especially the flat-bot 

 tomed scow with square ends, were the ordinary 

 means of conveyance. They were of all sizes. 

 The passengers and their live stock were of course 

 huddled together so as to take up as little room 

 as possible. Sometimes the immigrants built or 

 bought their own boat, navigated it themselves, and 

 sold it or broke it up on reaching their destination. 

 At other times they merely hired a passage. A few 

 of the more enterprising boat owners speedily in 

 troduced a regular emigrant service, making trips 

 at stated times from Pittsburg or perhaps Lime 

 stone, and advertising the carriage capacity of their 

 boats and the times of starting. The trip from 

 Pittsburg to Louisville took a week or ten days; 

 but in low water it might last a month. 



The number of boats passing down the Ohio, 

 laden with would-be settlers and their belongings, 

 speedily became very great. An eye-witness stated 

 that between November I3th and December 22d, 

 of 1785, thirty-nine boats, with an average of ten 

 souls in each, went down the Ohio to the Falls ; and 

 there were others which stopped at some of the 

 settlements further up the river. 8 As time went 



8 Draper MSS., "Massachusetts Gazette," March 13, 1786; 

 letter from Kentucky, December 22, 1785. 

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