post-town, and capital of Alleghany county, Maryland, on the Potowmac, at the junction of Will's Creek, seventy miles west of Hagerstown, 130 east-south-east of Wheeling, and 150 west by north of Baltimore. It is a considerable town, and contains a courthouse, a jail, a market-house, a bank, and several houses of public worship. The mountains in the vicinity abound in stone and coal, great quantities of which are transported down the Potowmac in flat and keel boats. The Cumberland or great western road extends from this town to the banks of the Ohio at Wheeling. It was made by the government of the United States, and a survey has since been executed from thence to the Mississippi, 600 miles farther.

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.