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and the Mississippi. White river is navigable for keel boats 

 at high water to this place, and daringa considerable portion of 

 the year, they may ascend one hundred miles farther. It is here 

 about three hundred yards wide; the water is remarkably clear, 

 and flows withamoderate current over a gravelly or stony bed. 

 Near Harding's ferry on the south side of White river is 

 the Chattahoochee mountain, of about two thousand feel ele- 

 vation, somewhat surpassing any other point in its vicinity. 

 The top of this mountain marks the north-eastern angle of the 

 Cherokee boundary, as established by general Jackson's treaty. 

 The eastern boundary of the tract ceded by that treaty to 

 the Cherokees, runs in a straight line from the top of the 

 Chattahoochee, to the mouth of Point Remove^ or Eddy 

 Point creek, which enters the Arkansa about 30 miles above 

 the Cadron. This line coincides nearly with the eastern 

 limit of the mountainous region. Many small portions of 

 valuable land are included in the territory lately ceded to 

 the Cherokees, but by far the greater part is mountainous 

 and barren, and unfit for cultivation. 



White river has its sources in the Ozark mountains near 

 the 94th degree of west longitude, and about the 36th north 

 latitude, in the same district from which descend on the 

 southwest the Illinois river of Arkansa, and on the north 

 the Yungar fork of the Osage. The average direction of 

 its course is nearly due east, parallel to the Arkansa, cross- 

 ing about four degrees of longitude to its confluence with 

 Black river, in latitude 35*» 15', then turning abruptly south, 

 it flows through one degree and fifteen minutes of latitude 

 to its bifurcation, and the confluence of its eastern branch 

 with the Mississippi in 34° north. 



Below the point where it receives the Black river from 

 the north, and even at the Chattahoochee mountains, near 

 one hundred miles above that point, White river is little in- 

 ferior, either in the width of its channel, or in its volume of 

 water, to the Arkansa under the same meridian. 



