veſſels as they paſſed with three cheers, and by firing a ſmall piece of ordnance from the banks."[1] "The building and lading of ships is now conſidered as an enterprize of the greateſt importance in this part of the country. The laſt (1802) there were launched from the ſhip-yard of Captain Devol, on the Muſkingum river, five miles above its mouth, the ſhip 'Muskingum,' of 204 tons, owned by Benjamin Ives Gilman, Eſq. and the brigantine 'Eliza Greene,' of 115 tons, owned by Charles Greene, Eſq. merchants at Marietta. At the ſpring flood of the preſent year, the ſchooner 'Indiana,' of 100 tons, the brig 'Marietta,' of 130 tons, and another of 150 tons, also built here, were launched and deſcended the river for New Orleans and the trade to the West Indies. Good judges of naval architecture have pronounced theſe veſſels equal, in point of workmanship and materials, to the beſt that have been built in America. The firmneſs and great length of their planks, and the excellency of their timbers, (their frames being almost wholly compoſed of black walnut, a wood which, if
- ↑ Id., pp. 52–53.
