The western pilot; containing charts of the Ohio river and of the Mississippi, from the mouth of the Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico; accompanied with directions for navigating the same, and a gazetteer; or description of the towns on their banks, tributary streams, etc., also, a variety of matter interesting to travelers, and all concerned in the navigation of those rivers; with a table of distances from town to town on all the above rivers.

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Author / Creator:Cumings, Samuel
Edition:Rev. and cor. every year by Capts. Charles Ross & John Klinefelter.
Imprint:Cincinnati, G. Conclin, 1848.
Description:144 p. illus.(charts) 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:University of Chicago Library's Rare copy forms part of the Durrett Collection.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3177204
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Notes:At head of title:
A revised and altered edition of the author's "Western navigator".
"Cumings' editions of the 'Navigator' and 'Pilot' ... were amplifications of [The navigator, by Zadok] Cramer ... without acknowledgment of the main source of their material." --Sabin, Bibl. amer., v. 5, p. 126.

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