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one hundred and twenty five, or about one hundred 

 and forty English miles. It is a deep but narrow 

 stream, navigable however as far as the two cascades. 

 It had lakes formerly. 



7. Great Kenhaway. Rises in the Alleghany 

 Mountains, [I. 365] [77] near latitude 36, in North 

 Carolina, and flows through Virginia. Course north- 

 erly, one hundred and seventy five miles, real course 

 very crooked, about two hundred and seventy miles 

 or three hundred and fifteen English miles. It joins 

 the Ohio at Point Pleasant. It is a fine, navigable 

 and broad river, with many branches. 



8. Big Guyandot. It rises in the Cumberland 

 Mountains, and runs N. through Virginia, emptying 

 itself at Guyandot. It is navigable sixty miles; 

 length seventy miles, real course one hundred miles, 

 or about one hundred and twenty English miles. 



9. Sandy River. Rises also in the Cumberland 

 Mountains near the 37th degree of latitude, and sepa- 

 rates Virginia from Kentucky. It is a large but shal- 

 low river, with three branches. Common course 

 north, ninety miles in length, natural course one 

 hundred and twenty five miles, or one hundred and 

 forty six English miles. It is also called Tottery 

 river and Big Sandy. 



10. Scioto. It flows through the state of Ohio, 

 rising in a morass of the Ohio ridge or table land, 

 near latitude 40 1-2. It empties near Portsmouth 

 after a southerly course of one hundred and ten miles, 

 real course about one hundred and ninety miles or 

 two hundred and twelve English miles. It is navi- 

 gable one hundred and thirty miles, and is four hun- 

 dred and fifty feet broad at the mouth. It has many 

 bars and snags, but no falls. Its four principal 



