48.^ Little Miami Licking creek Great Miami Big Bones Kentucky Rapids Low country Buffalo river Wabash Big Caije Shawanee riwr Cherokee river Massac Missisipi 126^ 8 2 6| 3 2^ 44.1. 77^ \55\ 64^ 5^1 IS 11 46 L 17 3 In common winter and fpring tides it affords 15 feet water to Louifville, 10 feet to Le Tane's rapids, 40 miles above the mouth of the Great Kanhaway, and a fufficiency at all times for light batteaux and canoes to Fort Pitt. The rapids are in latitude 38^ 8\ The inundations of this river begin about the laft of March, and fubfide in July. During thefe a firft rate man of war may be carried from Louifville to New Orleans, if the fudden turns of the river and the ftrength of its current will admit a fafe fteerage. The rapids at Louifville defcend about 30 feet in a length of a mile and a half. The bed of the river there is a folid rock, and is divided by an ifland into two branches, the fouthern of which is about 200 yards wide, and is dry four months in the year. The bed of the northren branch is worn into channels by the conftant courfe of the water, and attrition of the pebble ftones carried on with that, fo as to be paffable for batteaux through the greater part of the year. Yet it is thought that the fouthern arm may be the moft ealily D opened for conftant navigation. The rife of the waters in thefe rapids does not exceed lo or 12 feet. A part of this ifland is fo high as to have been never overflowed, and to command the fettlement at Louifville, which is oppofite to it. The fort, however, is fituated at the head of the falls. The ground on the fouth fide rifes very gradually.
The Tanijfee, Cherokee or Hogohege river is 600 yards wide at its mouth, ^ of a mile at the mouth of Holfton, and 200 yards at Chotee, which is 20 miles above Holfton, and 300 miles above the mouth of the Taniflee. This river crofles the fouthern boundary of Virginia, 58 miles from the Miffifipi. Its current is mode- rate. It is navigable for loaded boats of any burden to the Mufcle flioals, where the river pafles through the Cumberland mountain. Thefe Ihoals are 6 or 8 miles long, paflable downwards for loaded canoes, but not upwards, unlefs there be a fwell in the river. Above thefe the navigation for loaded canoes and batteaux