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Title: Afloat on the Ohio
An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo

Author: Reuben Gold Thwaites

Release Date: July 4, 2009 [eBook #29306]

Language: English

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Spellings and hyphenations are as in the original document.
Hyphenation was inconsistent, with the following words
appearing both with and without hyphens: saw-mill, tread-mill,
drift-wood, back-set, cotton-wood, farm-house, semi-circular,
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"Celoron".

AFLOAT ON THE OHIO

An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff,
from Redstone to Cairo

by

REUBEN GOLD THWAITES

Secretary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin,
Editor of "The Jesuit Relations,"
Author of "The Colonies, 1492-1750," "Historic Waterways,"
"The Story of Wisconsin," "Our Cycling Tour in England,"
etc., etc.

Chicago
Way & Williams
1897

Copyright
by Reuben Gold Thwaites
A.D., 1897

_To
FREDERICK JACKSON TURNER, Ph. D.,
Professor of American History in the University of
Wisconsin, who loves his native West
and with rare insight and gift of phrase
interprets her story,
this Log of the "Pilgrim" is cordially inscribed._

CONTENTS.

PAGE

Preface. xi

Chapter I.

On the Monongahela--The over-mo