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The (banning extract from a Kentucky paper 

 will throw great light on the sai>ject : 



Louisville, Ky. Aug. 5, 



" Western navigation. — We have enumerated a 

 list of seventy-three steam boats belonging to the 

 western navigation, 5u\y 27, 1820. Several 

 others are on the stocks above the falls of the 

 Ohio, and two in New-Orleans. There are also 

 several team boats in operation. 



The list of vessels will afford our distant sub- 

 scribers a pretty correct idea of the extent and 

 importance of the steam boat navigation of the 

 western country, which must continue to increase 

 with every succeeding year. Estimating the 

 freight actually carried by each boat, at 150 tons 

 on average, and that each will make three voya- 

 ges a year, the imports to various parts of the 

 western states will be found to amount to 33,300 

 tons, and the export in steam boats will exceed 

 that amount, while those that are made in 

 the usual way, (in flat boats or arks) will 

 more than double that amount. Thus our exports 

 may be said to be about 100,000 tons. 



Freights are nov*^ from 1 1-2 to 2 cents from 

 New-Orleans to this place. The average price, 

 buwever, may be stated at 2 cents per pound on 

 articles imported from New-Orleans. The amount 

 paid for freight on imports annually, is now some- 



