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Title: View of the valley of the Mississippi, or, The emigrant's and traveller's guide to the West : containing a general description of that entire country : and also notices of the soil, productions, rivers, and other channels of intercourse and trade : and likewise of the cities and towns, progress of education, &c. of each state and territory
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Baird, Robert, 1798-1863
Subjects: Mississippi River Valley United States
Publisher: Philadelphia : H.S. Tanner
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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urg, on the turnpike road from that city to Washingtonand Wheeling. It is chiefly distinguished for its beingthe seat of Jefferson College. Brownsville, is on the east-ern bank of the Monongahela River, 45 miles, by the river,south of Pittsburg. It is a place of much business. Union-town is on the national road, and is beautifully situatednear the western base of the Laurel Hill or Ridge. Erieis an important post on Lake Erie, about 120 miles northof Pittsburg. It has considerable trade with Buffalo, &c.Also Greensburg, Beaver, Meadville, are growing and im-portant towns. Several of them are the seats of justicefor the counties in which they stand. Along the Monon-gahela there are several places, such as Elizabethtown,Williamsport, Bridgeport, (which is separated fromBrownsville by Dunlaps creek) where steam-boats, arebuilt every year. Steam-boats are also built at Beaverand in its vicinity and at Shauses town, a small villageon the left bank of the Ohio, 12 miles below Pittsburg.
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hi Si mull ^^^ :^. §■ S ^5^S It fe 5 Sl *?s- a si. T> il !■ •^ tfl c III C tc V 5 §^ §:• WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 113 The steam-boats which are built at these places after beinglaunched, are commonly taken to Pittsburg to be finished,and receive their engines. There is a vast number of villages and towns in West-ern Pennsylvania, and many of them beautiful, and con-taining an intelligent and pleasant society, but which thelimits of this work will not allow me even to name. The most important town, or rather city, for it is incor-porated as such, is Pittsburg,—which has been rightlycalled the Birmingham of the West. Pittsburg is situated in 40 deg. 27 min. of north latitude,and 3° 02 west Ion. from Washington ; 300 miles west ofPhiladelphia, 120 south of Lake Erie, 1,100 by land, and2,029 by water, above New Orleans. It stands at thejunction of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers. TheMonongahela here runs nearly a due north-west course ;the Allegheny flows into it from t

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