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near latitude 36, in North Carolina, and flows through Virginia: 

 Course northerly, one hundrced and seventy five miles, reaj 

 course very crooked, about two hundred and seventy miles or 

 three hundred and fifteen English miles. It joins the Ohio a L 

 Point Pleasant. It is a fine, navigable and broad river, with ma- 

 ny 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 

 tiear the S7th degree of latitude, and separates Virginia from 

 Kentucky. It is a large but shallow river, with three bran; hes. 

 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 lottery river and Bii^ Sandy. 



io. Scioto. Itflows through the state of Ohio, rising in a 

 morass of the Ohio ridge or tabic bind, near latitude 40 1-2. It 

 empties near Portsmouth after a southerly course of one hun- 

 dred and ten miles, real course about one hundred and ninety 

 miles or two hundred and twelve English miles. It is naviga- 

 ble one hundred and thirty miles, and is four hundred and fifty 

 feet broad at the mouth. It has many bars and snags, but no 

 falls. Its four principal branches are Whetstone river, Paint, 

 jDarbv, and Walnut creeks. It had lakes formerly. 



11. Little Miami. Runs through Ohio in a S. S. W. di- 

 rection of sixty miles, natural course one hundred miles or one 

 hundred and fifteen English miles. It is not navigable. It joins 

 the Ohio near Columbia and has several small branches. Xca r 

 its head, it runs for a mile through a narrow chasm, with sue. 

 ccssive falls of two hundred feet. 



12. Licking River. It flows through Kentucky in a N. W. 

 course of one hundred and sixty miles, rising in the Cumberland 

 Mountains, near latitude 37. It has two great branches, is hard, 

 ly navigable, and winds very much. It empties between New- 

 port and Covington, opposite Cincinnati. Peal course about 

 three hundred miles or nearly three hundred and fifty English 

 miles. 



