No. 88, 11/2 miles below No. 87

Lies so close to the left side that you don’t’ observe it until you get opposite the pass that runs around it, and which takes out at right angles with the river; it is but a small pass and is never navigated with large boats - channel right side, which is the main body of the river.

At the head of this island is a settlement, and opposite it on the right side of the river are four others, two of which are newly made. No. 88 is about 31/2 miles long.

Here and lower down are to be seen pelican, swan, geese, sandhill cranes and ducks, in millions. The sand bars for miles are covered with the, and at night their noise is so great that you can scarcely sleep for them. They sometimes rise from the small lakes adjoining the river, in such immense numbers, as almost to form a cloud over your head, the sand-hill cranes particularly, whose noise you hear when you can no longer see them, their flight being very high.

The Navigator. Zadok Cramer. Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, Pittsburgh, Pennsyvania (1814) p. 201