Vol. 1 No.6 - Pg.2 - Col.4 - OUR INLAND NAVIGATION

OUR INLAND NAVIGATION.—Much admiration was excited in Liverpool, Eng. a few weeks since, by the appearance of the ship Muskingum, direct from Marietta, Ohio, "seventeen hundred miles from salt-water," as the Englishmen reported. This circumstance led to an estimate of the distance, or length and extent of a voyage from Pittsburg on the Ohio, to N.Orleans; thence to the Yellowstone river, and back to Pittsburg. The distances given are as follows: Pittsburg to Cincinnati 498 miles: Louisville 137: Mouth of the Ohio 435: New Orleans 1012: St. Louis 1184: Weston 500: Yellow Stone 1438: back to St. Louis 1848: Mouth of the Ohio 172: Pittsburg 980. Making a voyage of 8024 miles, without going in sight of salt water. Well may Englishmen admire our facilities for inland navigation.