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The Kaskaskia is one hundred yards wide at its en- 

 t ranee into the Mississippi and preserves tfiat breadth 

 to the Buffalo plains, 70 miles above. So far also it is 

 navigable for loaded batteaux, and perhaps much fur- 

 ther. It is not rapid. 



The Ohio is the most beautiful river on earth. Its 

 current gentle, waters clear, and bosom smooth, and 

 unbroken by rocks and rapids, a single instance only 

 excepted. 



It is 1-4 of a mile wide at fort Pitt : 



500 yards at the mouth of the Great Kanhaway : 



1 mile and 25 poles at Louisville : 



1-4 of a mile on the rapids, three or four miles below 

 Louisville. 



1-2 a mile where the low country begins which is 20 

 miles above Green river : 



1 1-4 at the receipt of the Tanissee : 



And a mile wide at the mouth. 



Its length, as measured according to its meanders by 

 Capt. Hutchins, is as follows : 



From Fort Pitt 



1188 miles. 



In common winter and spring tides it affords 15 feet 



water to Louisville, 10 feet to I^e Tarte's rapids, 40 



miles above the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, and a 



