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Notes on Virginia: the Great Miami in figures

Author: Thomas Jefferson Year: 1785 Length: 496 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

The densest numbers in the whole set: nine figures in a few lines, so the digit row gets almost no rest.

The Great Miami of the Ohio is 200 yards wide at the mouth. At the Piccawee towns, 75 miles above, it is reduced to 30 yards; it is, nevertheless, navigable for loaded canoes 50 miles above these towns. The portage from its Western branch into the Miami of Lake Erie is 5 miles; that from its Eastern branch into Sandusky river is 9 miles. Salt River is at all times navigable for loaded batteaux 70 or 80 miles. It is 80 yards wide at its mouth, and keeps that width to its fork, 25 miles above.

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Here Jefferson measures the Great Miami and the Salt River in yards and miles and gives the length of two portages. The figures follow each other closely, 200, 75, 30, 50, 70, 80 and 25, which is what makes the passage a drill. He compiled them from surveyors, traders and army reports, since he had not travelled there himself. The queries he was answering reached him from Paris in 1780.

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Here Jefferson measures the Great Miami and the Salt River in yards and miles and gives the length of two portages. The figures follow each other closely, 200, 75, 30, 50, 70, 80 and 25, which is what makes the passage a drill. He compiled them from surveyors, traders and army reports, since he had not travelled there himself. The queries he was answering reached him from Paris in 1780.

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The densest numbers in the whole set: nine figures in a few lines, so the digit row gets almost no rest.

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