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Proceedings of the managers of the Ohio Canal Company, 1805 September 11
Proceedings of the managers of the Ohio Canal Company, at Louisville, on Wednesday, the 11th day of September, 1805. -
Letter from Francis H. Gaines to David L. Ward, 15 January 1814
Letter to David L. Ward from Marietta, Ohio, discusses high water levels on the river. -
Letter from Francis H. Gaines to David L. Ward, 20 August 1814
Letter to David L. Ward about Ohio river traffic and water levels. -
Letter from Patrick Henry to William Christian, 25 February 1786
Henry writes Christian on various subjects including the navigation of the Mississippi, treaty negotiations with Spain, the scarcity of cash, and the cost of enslaved laborers. -
Considerations, on some of the matters to be acted on, or worth acting on, at the next session of the General Assembly of Kentucky.
First, the sphere of powers of the Judiciary. Second, the ways and means by which the people may extricate themselves from difficulties and raise to happiness. Includes two extracts from the Morning Post. -
Domestic manners of the Americans
A description of the customs and manners of the Americans.Tags chapel; cholera; church; Cincinnati; clergy; climate; clothing; customs; domesticity; drawing; Equality; feminism; fever; fine arts; food; gender; health; holidays; hotel; independence day; literature; Louisville; market; museum; Native American; Ohio River; pamphlets; parties; phrenology; picture gallery; pigs; religion; river navigation; school; servants; shakespeare; sickness; social life; society; storms; Theology; travel; Women; working class -
Travels on an inland voyage: through the states of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee and through the territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New- Orleans: performed in the years 1807 and 1808: including a tour of nearly six thousand miles
Covers travels through Ohio and Kentucky and observations on mammoth bones (antiquities), floating mills, land prices and navigating the Ohio. Covers types of river transportation and shipment of goods between Natchez and Kentucky.