Four months in a sneak-box : a boat voyage of 2600 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and along the Gulf of Mexico (1879)
Bishop, Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes), 1837-1902 · Boston : Lee & Shepard ; New York : C.T. Dillingham · leaf 48
atingm3-self, 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.—J^ead of the pnio J^iyer. 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 freezing of its surface, for alongits course between its source at Pittsburgh…
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