never can be flemmed by the force of the wind alone, adling on fails. Any veffel, however, navigated with oars, may come up at any time, and receive much aid from the wind. A bat- teau pafles from the mouth of Ohio to the mouth of Miffifipi in three weeks, and is from two to three months getting up again. During its floods, which are periodical as thofe of the Nile, the largeft veflels may pafs down it, if their fteerage can be infured. Thefe floods begin in April, and the river returns into its banks early in Auguft. The inundation extends further on the weftern than eafl:ern fide, covering the lands in fome places for 50 miles from its banks; Above the mouth of the Miflburi, it becomes much fuch a river as the Ohio, like it clear, and gen- tle in its current, not quite fo wide, the period of its floods nearly the fame, but not rifmg to fo great a height. The jftreets of the village at Cohoes are not more than 10 feet above the ordinary level of the water, and yet were never overflowed. Its bed deepens every year.
Cohoes, in the memory of many people now living, was infulated by every flood of the river. What was the eaftern chan- nel has now become a lake, 9 miles in length and one in width, into which the river at this day never flows. This river yields turtle of a pecuUar kind, perch, trout, gar, pike, mullets, herrings, carp, fpatula-fifh of 5olb. weight, cat-fifti of loolb. weight, buiFalo fifh, and fturgeon. Aligators or crocodiles have been feen as high up as the Acanfas. It alfo abounds in herons, cranes, ducks, brant, geefe, and fwans.
Its paflage is commanded by a fort efta- bliflied by this flate, five miles below the mouth of Ohio, and ten miles above the Carolina boundary.
The Miflburi, fmce the treaty of Paris, the Illinois and Northern branches of the Ohio, fmce the ceflion to Congrefs, are no longer within our limits. Yet having been fo heretofore, and ftill opening to us channels of extenfive communication with the weftern and north-weftern country, they ihall be noted in their order.