The book Afloat On the Ohio was written by author Thwaites, Reuben Gold, 1853-1913 Here you can read free online of Afloat On the Ohio book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Afloat On the Ohio a good or bad book?
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A trading-boat was mooredjust within the Saline, where we stopped for lunch under a clump ofsycamores. The owner obtains butter and eggs from the farmers, inexchange for his varied wares, and sells them at a goodly profit topassing steamers, which will always stop when flagged. Approaching Cave-in-Rock, Ill. (869 miles), the right bank isfor several miles an almost continuous palisade of lime-stone, thick-studded with black and brown flints. In the breaking down ofthis escarpment, popularly sty...led Battery Rocks, numerous caves havebeen formed, the largest of which gave the place its name. It is arather low opening into the rock, perhaps two hundred feet deep, andthe floor some twenty feet above the present level of the river;in times of flood, it is frequently so filled with water that boatsenter, and thousands of silly people have, in two or three generationspast, carved or painted their names upon the vaulted roof. [B] Fromthis large entrance hall, a chimney-like hole in the roof leads toother chambers, said to be imposing and widely ramified--"not unlikea Gothic cathedral, " said Ashe, an early English traveler (1806), who appears to have everywhere in these Western wilds sought themarvellous, and found it.
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