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- Sprache: Englisch
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THREE DAYS ON THE OHIO RIVER
William A. Alcott
LACONIA PUBLISHERS
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Copyright © 2017 by William A. Alcott
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
CHAPTER II. THE STEAMBOAT.
CHAPTER III. BEGINNING THE VOYAGE.
CHAPTER IV. SAILING UP THE RIVER.
CHAPTER V. MAYSVILLE.
CHAPTER VI. IN THE CABIN.
CHAPTER VII. THE FOUR INDIANS.
CHAPTER VIII. THE COAL COUNTRY.
CHAPTER IX. THE VARIETY OF FACES.
CHAPTER X. BLENNERHASSETT’S ISLAND.
CHAPTER XI. THE ANCIENT MOUNDS.
CHAPTER XII. A SUSPENSION BRIDGE.
CHAPTER XIII. LOGAN, THE MINGO CHIEF.
CHAPTER XIV. THIRD NIGHT ON THE RIVER.
CHAPTER XV. ARRIVAL AT PITTSBURG, WITH REFLECTIONS.
THREE DAYSON THEOHIO RIVER.
By FATHER WILLIAM.
A WESTERN STEAMBOAT.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
CARLTON & PHILLIPS,
in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the SouthernDistrict of New-York.
THREE DAYS ON THE OHIO.
CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
I WAS ONCE IN THE city of Cincinnati, and wished to go to Pittsburg by way of the river. Not that this was the nearest way, or the swiftest, or the cheapest; but I desired very much to see the country through which the river runs: for, as I had read in the histories of the United States, and particularly in the accounts of our wars with the Indians, much about the Ohio River, with many of its towns and villages, my curiosity was very active; and I was determined to behold it.
It was Monday, the 29th of March, and a most lovely morning, too, when I went on board the steamboat Pittsburg, bound for the city of the same name. I was careful to set out early in the week, so as, if possible, to reach Pittsburg before Sunday.
CHAPTER II. THE STEAMBOAT.
WERE YOU EVER ON BOARD a Western river steamboat? As some of you may not have had the opportunity, I will give you a short account of one.
Some of these boats are very large indeed. They would seem to you like a little world of themselves.
The Pittsburg is about two hundred and eighty feet in length by sixty in breadth. This boat, if placed in a field, would cover nearly half an acre of land.
These boats are high as well as long. Besides the hold, as they call it—a kind of cellar into which they stow away much of their heavy freight—they have two or three other stories or decks for freight and passengers.
The one next above the hold is where they keep their cattle and horses and hogs, if they have any on board; also their common freight. Here, too, in some instances, they have at one end a clumsy kind of cabin called the forecastle, or steerage.
This forecastle is occupied, for the most part, by the poorer passengers, especially emigrants. They have berths or shelves to recline on, but no bed-clothing; and their accommodations are generally very inferior.
On the next floor above are the cabins for the passengers in general. They are usually in two great—rather long—rooms, one at each end. One of them is used at meals as the dining-room. The berths or sleeping places are at their sides. They, too, are mere broad shelves, but they have bed-clothing and curtains.
On the upper deck the cabins are still more ample, as well as better furnished. There, instead of shelves at the sides, there are small rooms connected with the shelves, called state-rooms.
Were it not that the cabins on those upper decks are unusually long in proportion to their breadth, and did you not feel the motion of the boat while occupying them, the traveler would hardly know that he was not in a large and comfortable hotel or dwelling-house.
There is still another deck or promenade above all these, but passengers are not usually allowed to occupy it. The helmsman of the boat is stationed here, and a crowd of people around him might obstruct his view.
