| 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 travelers, 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 Cummings. Containing the population of the principal towns on the river in 1846.
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| Edition | Rev. and cor. every year by Capts. Charles Ross & John Klinefelter. |
| Published | Cincinnati, G. Conclin, 1848.
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| Description | 144 p. illus.(charts) 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".
"Cumings' editions of the 'Navigator' and 'Pilot' ... were amplifications of [The navigator, by Zadok] 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 -- 1848.
Ohio River -- Description and travel.
Ohio River -- Navigation.
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| LC Card Number | 28-23905 |
| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: F 25 J C969W 1848
mq57889: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 39328] |
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