CUMBERLAND, a river which rises in the Cumberland Mountains, Virginia, and runs through Kentucky and Tennessee into the Ohio, sixty miles from the Mississippi. It is navigable for steam-boats to Nashville, near 200 miles, and for boats of fifteen tons 300 miles farther. At certain seasons vessels of 400 tons may descend 400 miles to the Ohio.
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