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This is proved by their early appearance at the same time in all 

 the parts of the river and even as high as Pittsburgh. This 

 happens even with the Sturgeons and Herrings of the Ohio, 

 which are in other countries periodical fishes, travelling annu- 

 ally from the sea to the rivers in the spring, and from the rivers 

 to the sea in the fall. 



Fishes are very abundant in the Ohio, and are taken some- 

 times by thousajyls,with tKe sfcftfei: some of them are salted; 

 but not do mitty as in the great lakes. Irf Pittsburgh; Cin- 

 cinnati, Louisville, Sec. fish always meets a good market, and 

 sells often higher than meat; but at a distance from those towns 

 you may buy the best fish at the rate of one or two cents 

 the pound. It affords excellent food, and, if not equal to the 

 best sea fish, it comes very near it, being much above the com- 

 mon river fish of Europe: the mbst delicate fishes are {fie 

 Salmon-pteTCh, the Bubbler, the Buffaloe-fish,thc Sturgeons; {he 

 Cfflftftes, ftc. It is h6t Unusual to' meet such fishes of the 

 weight ($f thirty to bite hitaflred pouhas, and some mohtEfoTw 

 bite* ar* occasionally taught, ot double that weight. The mc-'s* 

 usual mantlets of catching fish iti the Ohio are, with seines or 

 harpoons at night and In shallow water, with boats Carrying a 

 light, or with the hooks and lines, and even with baskets. 



I am sorry to be compelled to delay the publication of my 

 figures of all the fishes now described: these delineations shall 

 appear at another period. 



To facilitate the knowledge of the streams memlotted,- 1 pre- 

 fix a physical description of the Ohio and its principal branches. 



Lexington, keltlutky , 1£/A Mvetntet, 18f 9. 

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RIVER OHIO. 



fiTfiAD. It is formed by the junction of the rivers Alleghany 

 ahoMVibnongahcla, in Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, near the 40| 

 degree of north latitude. It is difficult to say which of them- is 

 ttPB main branch or stream, the Alleghany being the longest 

 anil iirthe most direct course, while the Monongahela appears 

 to be tire largest at the junction, and to have similar watefs. 



