400 yards wide at the mouth, and 300 at St. Vincennes, which is a poft 100 miles above the mouth, in a direct line. With- in this fpace there are two fmall rapids, which give very little obfl:ru6lion to the navigation. It is 400 yards wide at the mouth, and navigable 30 leagues upwards for canoes and fmall boats. From the mouth of Maple river to that of Eel river is about 80 miles in a diredl line, the river continuing navigable, and from one to two hundred yards in width. The Eel river is 150 yards wide, and affords at all times navigation for periaguas, to within 18 miles of the Miami of the Lake. The "Wabafli, from the mouth of Eel river to Little river, a diftance of 50 miles direft, is interrupted with frequent rapids and flioals, which obftruft the navigation, ex- cept in a fwell. Little river aifords na- vigation during a fwell to within 3 miles t 21 ] of the Miami, which thence affords a fimilar navigation into Lake Erie, loa miles diftant in a direft Une. The Wa- bafti overflows periodically in correfpon- dence with the Ohio, and in fome places two leagues from its banks.
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