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descending the Alleghanies; Or down from the great lakes, or in Pennsylvania, or on deck along the Ohio river
; Or southward along the Tennessee or Cumberland rivers, or at Chatta- nooga on the mountain top, Saw
your own shape and countenance-persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks
of the people of Coeyman's to sue out an injunction against the further prosecution of the Hudson River
Cook, for rent of land at the mouth of Genessee river, New York.
a letter from Jeff it seems their concern has overflowed once on account of the great rise of the river
works are going along pretty well although just at this moment we are in ill-luck consequent upon the river
having risen and overflowed our cofferdam and thereby stopped progress on the river work.
For the last three weeks the river has been just on the verge of overflowing us—the consequence was that
keep it out of the dam—the foundations are from 25 to 30 feet under the surface of the water in the river
and I felt it would make bad work to be drowned out It would (the river) go up to within just a few
Jefferson county, West Virginia, to recover about twenty-one acres of land, situated on the Potomac river
Well, boy, I shall now take a bath, dress myself & go out, cross the river, put this letter in the p.
raised after the Holidays father has just received Employment In the pipe yard foot of 24th St of East River