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130 RIVERS: Ohio (continued)— ments on northern shore of, 53–58; northern shore conquered by Virginians, 53, 54; difficulty in restraining illegal settlements on northern shores of, 53; early settlements on northern shore of, 54; early settlements on northern shore forbidden, 55; Professor Turner on rights of early settlers on northern shore, 58; state convention of early settlers north of, called for, 57; Fort Harmar built on, 59; Fort Finney built on, 60; territory northwest of, erected, 60; Marietta founded on, 64; first legal settlement on northern shore of, 64; Cincinnati founded, 65; both shores settled in 1790, 70; Putnam's map of, 71; Cramer's description of early navigation of, 73–99; exports on, 87; "planters" in, 95; "sawyers" in, 96; "Wooden-Islands," 98; dangers of early navigation of, 93–99; craft on, 100–150; Audubon's description of flatboating on, 113–118; navigation over the falls of, 122; in Civil War, 123; first flatboat to descend, 123; rafting logs on, 127–129; galleys on, 129–131; gunboat on, 129; "Adventure Galley" on, 130; mail-boats on, 130; sailing craft on, 132–136; shipbuilding on, 133–136; Tarascon, Berthoud and Company, ship-