cviii life of WILSON. 
teen feet wide, and from forty to seventy feet long, covered 
above, rowed only occasionally by two oars before, and steer- 
ed by a long and powerful one fixed above, as in the annexed 
sketch. 
Jirk. 
Barge for passing up stream. 
‘‘ The barges are taken up along shore by setting poles, at 
the rate of twenty miles or so a day; the arks cost about one 
hundred and fifty cents per foot, according to their length; and 
when they reach their places of destination, seldom bring more 
than one-sixth their original cost. These ai’ks descend from 
all parts of the Ohio and its tributary streams, the Alleghany, 
Monongahela, Muskingum, Sciota, Miami, Kentucky, Wa- 
bash, &c. in the months of March, April, and May particular- 
ly, with goods, produce and emigrants, the two former for 
markets along the river, or at New Orleans, the latter for va- 
rious parts of Kentucky, Ohio, and the Indiana Territory. I 
now return to my own expedition. I rowed twenty odd miles 
the first spell, and found I should be able to stand it perfectly 
well. About an hour after night I put up at a miserable cabin, 
fifty-two miles from Pittsburg, where I slept on what I sup- 
posed to be corn-stalks, or something worse; so preferring the 
smooth bosom of the Ohio to this brush heap, I got up long 
before day, and, being under no apprehension of losing my 
way, I again pushed out into the stream. The''landscape on 
each side lay in one mass of shade, but the grandeur of the pro- 
jecting headlands and vanishing points, or lines, was charming- 
