n July, 1819, learned that the water was so low
that large boats could with difficulty pass from Pittsburg to Wheeling.
They accordingly went from Baltimore to Wheeling, a distance of two
hundred and eighty miles, by land. They had two wagons with six horses and
a driver to each wagon. The price for transportation was three hundred and
fifty dollars. At Wheeling a contract was made for transportation to
Louisville, six hundred miles distance. For this, fifty dollars was paid,
the passengers agreeing to help navigate the boat. At Louisville an ark
was bought for twenty-five dollars, and two men were hired for eighteen
dollars and their board, to take the party to Shawneetown, about three
hundred miles distant. At Shawneetown the master of a keel-boat was
engaged to take the luggage of six thousand pounds to a point about eleven
miles from Birkbeck's settlement, for 37-1/2 cents per hundred pounds. The
travelers proceeded on foot. The time occupied in the journey was: From
Baltimore to Wheeling, sixteen days; from Wheeling to Shawneetown,
thirty-eight days; from Shawneetown to the Birkbeck settlement, four
days.(420) A traveler in Illinois, in 1819, said that the usual price of
land carriage was fifty cents per hundred pounds for each twenty miles;
sometimes higher, never lower, and that it would not pay to have corn
transported twenty miles.(421) In 1820, the charge for carrying either
baggage or persons from Baltimore to Wheeling was reported as from five to
seven dollars per hundred weight. Persons wishing to travel cheaply had
their luggage transported while they walked.(422)

In 1823 the following passenger rates, by steamboat, were quoted: From
Cincinnati to New Orleans, $25.00; to Louisville, $4.00; to Pittsburg,
$15.00; to Wheeling, $14.00; from New Orleans to Cincinnati, $50.00; from
Louisville to Cincinnati, $6.00; from Pittsburg to Cincinnati, $12.00;
from Wheeling to Cincinnati, $10.00. The time quoted for passage up stream
was never less than twice that for passage down stream.(423) Early in 1825
the _Louisiana Gazette_ (presumably of New Orleans) reported that a
steamboat had made the 2200 miles from Pittsburg in sixteen days,(424) and
a few weeks later another steamer arrived at Shippingport, at the Falls of
the Ohio about two miles below Louisville, thirteen days from New Orleans,
this time including three days detention from the breaking of a
crank.(425) Rates quoted in 1826, per one hundred pounds, were: F