TJNITED STATRS- 



In its passage tlirough the mountain it makes very 

 great falls, admitting no navigation for ten miles, to 

 the Turkey foot. Thence to the Great Crossing,- 

 about twenty miles, it is again navigable, excepting: 

 m dry seasons, and at this place is two hundred 

 yards wide. The sources of this river are divided 

 from those of the Potowmac by the Alleghany moun- 

 <iain. From the falls, where it intersects the Laurel 

 mountain, to Fort Cumberland, the head of the na- 

 vigation on the Potowmac, is foity miles of very 

 mountainous road. Wills creek, at the mouth of; 

 "which was Fort Cumberland, is thirty or forty yards-* 

 wide, but aiTords no navigation as yet. Cheat river^^i 

 another considsrable branch of the Monongahela, m 

 two hundred yards wide at its mouth, and one hun-r 

 dred yards at the Dunkards' settlement, fifty miles^ 

 higher. It is navigable for boats, excepting in dry* 

 seasons. The boundary between Virginia and Penn- 

 sylvania crosses it about three or four miles above ii% 

 mouth. 



Muskingum Elver, 



Muskingum is a fine gentle river, confined by hi glii 

 banks, which prevent its Hoods from overflowing the 

 surrounding land. It is two hundred and fifty yards 

 wide at its confluence with the Ohio, and navigable, 

 without any obstructions, by large batteaux or barges- 

 to the Three Legs, and by small ones to a little lake 

 at its head. 



From thence to Cayuga, the creek that leads to 

 Lake Erie, the Muskingum is muddy, and not very 

 swift, but no where obstructed with falls or rifts. 

 Merft nre £ae uplandsj extensive meadows; oak and 



