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but since the introduction of Steam boats, Ships have been dis- 

 used. 



Towns. There are already more than 125 towns and villag- 

 es built on the Ohio. The city of Pittsburgh, at the head of it, 

 contains nearly 15000 inhabitants. Cincinnati, in Ohio, con- 

 tains above 10,000. The other principal towns are: Louisville, 

 in Kentucky, at the falls, about 5000: Steubcnville, in Ohio a- 

 boutSOOO: Maysville or Limestone, in Kentucky, about 2000: 

 besides, Bcavcrtown, in Pennsylvania: Wheeling, in Virginia: 

 Marietta, in Ohio, at the mouth of the Muskingum: Gallipo- 

 lis in Ohio: Portsmouth, Ohio, at the mouth of the Scioto: Au- 

 gusta, in Kentucky: Newport, K. at the mouth of Licking Riv- 

 er: Owensborough, K. Hendcrsonville, K. Vevay, in Indiana: 

 Lawrenccburg, Ind. at the mouth of the great Miami: Madi_ 

 son, Indiana: Jcffersonvillc and New-Albany, Indiana, both at 

 the falls: Evansville, Indiana: Shawncctown, in Illinois, &c. 



Branches. The Ohio receives immediately about 400 

 streams, of which 20 are rivers above 100 miles long, 54 arc 

 small rivers or large creeks, and more than 300 are brooks and 

 runs. Its largest branches empty into the lower parts of the Riv- 

 er, such as the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Wabash. They 

 all flow in valleys similar to that of the Ohio and proportioned 

 to their size. Many of them, such as the Scioto, Miami, Ten- 

 nessee, Wabash, &c. have plains, which indicate former lakes. 

 Most of them have rapids, ripples, bars, islands, 8cc. and offer 

 the same phenomena as the Ohio, particularly the periodical 

 rises and falls. I shall give some account of the JO principal 

 streams, which fall into the Ohio, in the order in which they 



join it. 



PRINCIPAL BRANCHES OF THE OHIO. 



1. Alleghany. It rises in Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, 

 near the 42d degree of latitude, on the northern parts of the 

 Alleghany mountains, and, after flowing through a small part 

 of the state of New- York, it returns into Pennsylvania, until 

 it joins the Monongahela at Pittsburgh and forms the Ohio. 

 General direction S. W. Length in a direct course 170 geo- 

 graphic miles, in the natural course 250, equal to 285 English 

 miles. It has five great branches, the Conemaugh, Concv/a- 



