| 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 gazetteer; or description of the towns on their banks, tributary streams, etc., also, a variety of matter interesting to travellers, and all concerned in the navigation of those rivers; with a table of distances from town to town on all the above rivers. By Samuel Cumings ... Corrected by Capts. Charles Ross & John Klinefelter.
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| Published | Cincinnati, J. A. & U. P. James, 1854.
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| Description | 140, [2] p. illus. (maps) 22 cm.
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| General Note | At head of title: Latest revised edition.
A revised and altered edition of the author's "Western navigator."
"Cuming's editions of the 'Navigator' and 'Pilot' ... were amplifications of [The navigator of Zadock] Cramer ... without acknowledgment of the main source of their material." - Sabin, Bibl. amer. v. 5, p. 126.
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| Subjects | Mississippi River -- Description and travel.
Mississippi River -- Navigation.
Ohio imprints -- 1854.
Ohio River -- Description and travel.
Ohio River -- Navigation.
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| LC Card Number | 17-5239 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 25 J C969W 1854
mq57891: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 39330] |
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