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W. then west and next north, watering Tennessee, 

 Alabama, Kentucky, &c. and emptying into the Ohio 

 a few miles below the Cumberland, from which basin 

 it is divided by a high ridge, and not far above the 

 mouth of the Ohio. The Tennessee is a very large 

 and fine navigable river, almost equal to the Ohio in 

 size, but not in depth. Its valley is wide and has 

 had many lakes, one of them was at the Muscle 

 Shoals, which forms now a [I. 368] [20] small lake, 

 full of rocky islands and rapids, and are a great 

 impediment to navigation. It was formerly called 

 the Cherokee river. 



SMALLER BRANCHES. 



The fifty four small rivers and large creeks, flow- 

 ing into the Ohio are the following, of which thirty 

 three empty on the right and twenty one on the left. 

 They are all over thirty miles long in their natural 

 course. 



In Pennsylvania, 3. Right bank. Little Beaver; 

 and on the left bank Chartier's Creek, Raccoon 

 Creek. 



In Ohio, 17. Big Yellow creek, Warren creek, 

 Indian Wheeling creek, Captina creek, Sunfish creek, 

 Opossum creek. Little Muskingum river. Duck creek, 

 Shade river, Kaygers creek. Campaign creek. Raccoon 

 creek, Symmes' creek. Brush creek, Little Scioto 

 river. Eagle creek. White Oak creek. 



In Virginia, 7. Short creek. Wheeling creek. Big 

 Grave creek, Fishing creek. Stony creek. Big Sandy 

 creek. Little Guyandot river. 



In Kentucky, 12. Little Sandy river, Tygert 

 creek, Kinniconick, Gunpowder creek, Bigbone creek, 

 Harrod creek, Beargrass creek, Otter creek. Sinking 



