Middle run, Cat's run, Muddy Creek, and Ten mile run. Near the latter is Fredericktown, a pretty village on the west side of the river.
Seven miles lower down, immediately above the mouth of Dunlap's Creek, on the east side, is Bridgeport, a small thriving town, connected with Brownsville by a neat bridge 260 feet long.
Brownsville, formerly called "Redstone old fort," is a post-town, belonging to Fayette County in Pennsylvania. Though extremely pleasant, and commanding a most extensive and interesting prospect of the river, the creeks, and the fine country around, it seems rather disadvantageously situated on account of the steep declivity of the hill on which it is principally built. It contains about one hundred and fifty houses, and five hundred inhabitants. There is a Roman Catholic church here, and four Friends' meeting-houses in the vicinity.
An extensive paper-mill on Redstone Creek, a rope-walk, a brewery, several valuable manufactories, and within a few miles of the town twenty-four saw, grist, oil, and {34} fulling mills, render this a place of much business. The trade and emigration down the river employ boat-builders very profitably. About one hundred boats of twenty tons each are said to be built here annually.
On the south side of Redstone Creek formerly stood Byrd's Fort.[19]
About nineteen miles below is Williamsport, a growing settlement, on the direct road from Philadelphia to Wheeling.
Twelve miles lower is Elizabethtown, on the southeast side of the river, containing about sixty houses. At
