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as Little Wabash, White river, &c. This last is 

 very considerable and extends its numerous and large 

 branches throughout Indiana; the longest is 350 miles 

 long, one of them runs parallel with the Ohio. It 

 empties above Shawneetown. 



18. Saline River. It flows through Illinois in 

 a S. E. direction, emptying below Shawneetown. 

 Length 55 miles, real course about 90, or 105 Eng- 

 lish miles ; it is therefore the smallest of the rivers 

 emptying into the Ohio, although Big Blue river, 

 Trade water river, Little Muskingum, and Little Sci- 

 oto, are still smaller and rather large creeks ; their 

 course being less than 100 miles, I have not noticed 

 them. The Saline river is partly navigable and has 

 three principal branches. 



19. Cumberland. It rises in the Cumberland 

 Mountains of Kentucky, and after watering Tennes- 

 see, returns into Kentucky, its course being W. and 

 N. W. about 300 miles ; real course about 500 miles or 

 about 585 English miles. It is a fine navigable 

 river, flowing in a broad valley, and with many small 

 branches, but no large ones. It has also been called 

 the Shawanee. 



20. Tennessee. The last and largest of the 

 branches of the Ohio. It is formed by the union of 

 the Holstein and Clinch rivers in Tennessee, the 

 former rising in Virginia near lat. 37, and the second 

 in North Carolina, within the Alleghany Mountains 

 near lat. 35. The whole course, if the Clinch river 

 is deemed the main branch, will be three hundred 

 and fifty miles, and the real course six hundred and 

 fifty, equal to about seven hundred and sixty english 

 miles. Duck river is another large branch of it, and 

 there are three others besides. The direction is S. 



