Four months in a sneak-box. A boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers (1879)
Bishop, Nathaniel Holmes, 1837-1902. [from old catalog] · Boston, Lee & Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham · leaf 54
atingmyself, I drew near to the confluence of theMonongahela and Alleghany, from the union ofwhich the great Ohio has its birth, and rolls FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. 31 steadily across the country a thousand miles tothe mightier Mississippi. The current of the Monongahela, as it flowedfrom the… … The ^tart, — flEAD of the pnio Riyer. 32 FOUR MONTHS IN A SNEAK-BOX. beginning of the voyage, hoping at the close ofthe month to be at the mouth of the river, andfar enough south to escape any inconveniencefrom a sudden freezino^ of its surface, for along-its course between its source at…
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