...Mississippi, we are told that the first appearance of a keel boat on this stream, above the mouth of the Ohio, was in 1751, " when a fleet of boats commanded by...French Marines, ascended as far as Fort Chartres." One of these boats is said to have " run against a tree," which burst the boat and let in such a quantity...

...came the Mackinaw boat, carrying 1500 weight to 3 tons, and then the keel boat or barge of 30 to 40 tons. The first appearance of the keel boat, in the...Mississippi, above the mouth of the Ohio, of which we Lave any account, was in 1751, when a fleet of boats, commanded by Bossu, a Captain of French Marine?,...

...Missouri, by bark canoes, and the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, connecting the lakes with the Mississippi, were a chief thoroughfare of the trade. Next to the...boats, commanded by Bossu, a captain of French marines, ascended'as far as Fort Chartrcs. This enterprise, also, was the first to ascertain, by experience,...

...Ohio, of which there is any official record, was in 1751, when a fleet of such boats, under command of Bossu, a captain of French marines, ascended as far as Fort Chartres. One of these was left helpless on a sand-bar, another struck a snag and sank, while the general hardship...

...three tons, and then the keel-boat or barge of 30 to 40 tons. The first appearance of the keelboat, in the Mississippi, above the mouth of the Ohio, of...Mississippi. One of the boats, the 'St. Louis,' struck a sand bar above the mouth of the Ohio, was unladen and detained two days. Three days after, says the...

...The first appearance of a keel-boat on the Mississippi above the mouth of the Ohio seems to have been in 1751, when a fleet of boats, commanded by Bossu, a captain of French marines, ascended to Fort Chartres. This was the first enterprise to ascertain by experience something of the navigation...