| Author | Cumings, Samuel.
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| Title | The western pilot : containing charts of the Ohio River, and of the Mississippi from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico, accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a description of the towns on their banks, tributary streams, etc. Also, a variety of matter interesting to all who are concerned in the navigation of those rivers / by Samuel Cumings.
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| Published | Cincinnati : Morgan, Lodge and Fisher, printers, 1825.
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| Description | 143 p., [44] leaves of plates : charts ; 23 cm.
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| General Note | A revised and altered edition of the author's "Western navigator".
"Cumings' editions of the 'Navigator' and 'Pilot' ... were amplifications of [The navigator of Zadok] Cramer ... without acknowledgment of the main source of their material"--Sabin, v. 5, p. 126.
"Marine insurances": p. [61]-130.
Advertisements on p. 134-143.
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| Subjects | Inland navigation -- United States.
Insurance, Marine -- United States.
Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
Mississippi River -- Navigation.
Ohio imprints -- 1825.
Ohio River -- Description and travel.
Ohio River -- Navigation.
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| LC Card Number | 08-19480 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 25 J C969W 1825 Vault
mq57881: Rare book room, LC class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
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