The Ohio and Mississippi navigator
Subtitle: comprising an ample account of those beautiful rivers, from the head of the former to the mouth of the latter, a description of the several towns, posts, harbours, settlements, &c. on and bordering their banks. Particular directions how to navigate them, as well in times of high freshes as when the water is low. A description of their rocks, ripples, channels, islands, bluffs, creeks, bayous, sand bars, &c. and the distances from place to place. : With a description of, and directions how to navigate the Allegheny & Monongahela rivers. : Compiled from late ms. journals of gentlemen of observation, and from information obtained of the best pilots
Edition: A new and corrected edition.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 6095
Publisher: Printed for, and sold by Zadok Cramer, bookseller and stationer, Market, between Front and Second streets. (To be had at Brownsville, Elizabethtown, McKeesport, Beavertown, Georgetown, Charlestown, Wheeling, &c.-- Price, 37 1/2 cents)--
Published: 1804
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Pilot guides; Inland navigation; Description and travel; Navigation
Notes: The fourth edition of Cramer's Ohio and Mississippi navigator, containing twenty-two additional pages in which are included the first directions for navigating the Mississippi River from the Ohio to its mouth. "It is about two years since this little work on the navigating of the western waters was begun and finished as far as the mouth of the Ohio (i.e., third edition, 1802, Shaw & Shoemaker 2096). But for want of information relative to the Mississippi we were obliged to postpone its completion."--verso of title page.

Attributed to Zadok Cramer by Leland D. Baldwin in his Pittsburgh, the story of a city (1937), p. 161.

Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.

Shaw & Shoemaker 6095

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