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EricRoscoe at Jul 15, 2022 10:55 PM

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289 Navigation

time we usually have no arrivals from below until about a month later, as shown by the following statement of the arrival of the first steamboat at Milwaukee since the first year of their navigating this Lake
In 1837, May 28th, the James Madison
1838, April 26th, Pennsylvania
1839 April 30th, Columbus
1840 April 11th, Chesapeake
1841 April 25th Great Western
1842 March 26th Chesapeake
1843 May 8th Bunkerhill

Mean or average April 26th, being [also] about the same time that Lake Erie is opened at Buffalo. But as that Lake is open from Cleveland, and other ports west of Buffalo, [also] to its westerrn exremity about a month before this time it will be seen that upon the completion of the rail road [fro] through Michigan and the Southern Rail Road in New York, the merchants of Wisconsin can receive their spring goods, and commence sending

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p. 278

289 Navigation

time we usually have no arrivals from below until about a month later, as shown by the following statement of the arrival of the first steamboat at Milwaukee since the first year of their navigating this Lake
In 1837, May 28th, the James Madison
1838, April 26th, Pennsylvania
1839 April 30th, Columbus
1840 April 11th, Chesapeake
1841 April 25th Great Western
1842 March 26th Chesapeake
1843 May 8th Bunkerhill

Mean or average April 26th, being [also] about the same time that Lake Erie is opened at Buffalo. But as that Lake is open from Cleveland, and other ports west of Buffalo, [also] to its westerrn exremity about a month before this time it will be seen that upon the completion of the rail road [fro] through Michigan and the Southern Rail Road in New York, the merchants of Wisconsin can receive their spring goods, and commence sending

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