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iher with large canoes. The lands ©n both sides of 

 this river are of a most luxuriant quality, for th^ 

 production of hemp, flax, wheat, tobacco, &c. They 

 are covered with a great variety of lofty and useful 

 timber ; as oak, hickory, mulberry, elm, 8cc. Seve- 

 ral persons who have ascended this river, say, that 

 salt springs, coal, lime, and freestone. Sec. are to be 

 found in a variety of places. 



The Wabash River^ 



The Wabash is a beautiful river, with high and 

 upright banks, less subject to overflow than any 

 other river, the Ohio excepted, in this part of Ame- 

 rica. It discharges itself into the Ohio, one thou- 

 sand and twenty-two miles below Fort Pitt, in lat* 

 37 deg. 41 min. at its mouth it is 270 yards wide ; 

 is navigable to Ouiatanon, four hundred and twelve 

 Biiles, in the spring, summer, and autumn, with bat- 

 teaux or barges, drawing about three feet water. 

 From thence, on account of a rocky bottom and shoal 

 water, large canoes are chiefly employed, except 

 when the river is swelled with rains, at which time 

 it rnay be ascended with boats, such as have been de- 

 scribed^ one hundred and ninety-seven miles further, 

 to the Miami carrying place, which is nine miles 

 from' the Miami village, and this is situated on a ri- 

 ver of the same name that runs into the south-south- 

 west part of Lake Erie. The stream of the Wabash 

 is generally gentle to fort Ouiatanon, and no where 

 obstructed with falls, but is by several rapids, both 

 above and below that fort, some of which are pretty 

 considerable. There is also a part of the river for 

 about three miles, and thirty miles from the carry- 



