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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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ce are represented in an accom-panying map of the town. The inhabitants of this placeare distinguished for their elegant and cordial hospitality,their intelligence, and public spirit. The several learnedprofessions here embrace much talent. Very many stran-gers from the lower part of the Valley of the Mississippi,here spend their summers ; whilst many travellers from theEast every year, spend much time at the excellent hotelsof this place. The population is between six and seventhousand. Louisville, at the head of the Falls or Rapids of theOhio, is the great commercial emporium of this state. Itis 132 (commonly said to be 150) miles, by the river, be-low Cincinnati ; 52 miles from Frankfort, 74 from Lexing-ton, 180 from Nashville; 1,448, by the river, above New-Orleans, and 590 miles from Washington City. It facesthe north ; the Ohio running at this point nearly due west.It stands on a vast alluvial bottom, which, ascending fromthe lower bank, stretches out in every direction from the
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KENTUCKY. 197 river. The Bear Grass, a considerable stream, falls intothe Ohio in the upper part of the city. There are severalstreets running parallel with the river, and others crossingthem at right angles. A vast and increasing amount ofbusiness is done here every year. Excepting when theriver is frozen up, steam-boats arrive and depart daily onthe upper Ohio. Shippingsport and Portland, two villagesseparated by the canal, and about two miles below Louis-ville, are really the port of this city below the falls. Hun-dreds of steam-boat arrivals and departures occur everyyear. Before the canal was built, goods and passengersfrom the Mississippi and the lower Ohio, were landed atthese villages, and brought up to the city by land. Thiscaused an immense factory business to be done here. Butnow, all steam-boats which can run on the Ohio, may passthrough the canal ; so that boats will hereafter come up tothe Louisville wharf and receive their freights, and on theirreturn land their cargoes

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