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ixient now rapidly completing, at the mouth of Ca- 

 tawissey creek, in the county of Northumberland* 

 At Sunbury, the north-east branch of the Susque- 

 hannah, which we have thus traced, is joined by tlie 

 west branch of that river. Mr. Cooper, in describ- 

 ing some views along the Susquehannah, observes: 



At this distance you look down upon the Susque- 

 hannah, about three or four miles off, a river about half 

 a mile broad, running at the foot of bold and steep 

 mountains, through a valley not much above three 

 miles broad in that part, rich, beautiful, and varie- 

 gated; at the distance of about four miles, on the 

 banks of the river, you catch the town of Sunbury, 

 and on the opposite side of the river, about two miles 

 -further, Northumberland. The Susquehannah op- 

 posite to Sunbury is about half a mile broad, at the 

 ferry opposite Northumberland, it seems full three 

 quarters of a mile over, and when we crossed it, 

 December the 17th, the ferryman reckoned it about 

 ten feet deep midway, the creeks were then low.'* 



The west branch of the Susquehannah takes its 

 rise somewhere in the county of Westmoreland, to 

 the west of the Alleghany mountains, and runs, with 

 many considerable windings, in a north-east course, 

 until it meets, about one hundred and six miles from 

 its mouth at Sunbury, the Sinnemahoning, by which 

 it nearly communicates with the two branches of the 

 Alleghany, by the two branches of this creek. 

 Through these two branches, either or both of which 

 may be taken, the navigation of the Susquehannah 

 is connected with the trade of lake Erie, and the 

 surrounding country, almost by a water communica- 

 tion • 



