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advantages afford aggregate Albany amount annual armory arrivals average banks bbls brls Browns'ille built Burnt canal cent channels Cincinnati 1832 Cincinnati and St citizens commerce constructed cost Covington employed enterprise estimated exports extent facilities feet flatboats floated flood four hundred freight fur trade h Marietta important improvement increase Indian industry interested iron Kentucky labor Lake Erie lakes land Lawrenceburg Little Miami railroad loss Louis Louisville manufactures Marietta ment merchandise merchant Miami canal miles Missouri navigation North Bend number of boats number of steamboats obstructions Ohio river Orleans passengers passing Pittsburgh 1835 population port portion prosperity railroad rapid region seven hundred Snagged square miles steam Sunk thousand tons tion tonnage Total towns trade transportation tributaries trip turnpikes twenty United valley vast vessels wealth West western rivers Wheeling Whitewater canal whole wilderness Worn