Rockport on the Ohio

Description

On the morning of October 18 the Water Witch weighed anchor and continued downriver. In his journal Maximilian wrote that "in spite of the low water level, the Ohio is very wide and beautiful." Bodmer's sketch of the rocky shoreline in the vicinity of Rockport, Indiana, was made before breakfast this same morning and serves to illustrate the descriptions in Maximilian's journal of unusual rock formations observed along the Ohio.