Note 1167 — Chapter VIII
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See Blane: An Excursion Through the United States and Canada, by "An English Gentleman," 119-21. For an accurate account of the commercial development of the West see also Johnson: History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce, i, 213-15.
On March 1, 1819, Flint saw a boat on the stocks at Jeffersonville, Indiana, 180 feet long, 40 feet broad, and of 700 tons burden. (Flint's Letters, in E. W. T.: Thwaites, ix, 164.)