Most of the strange boats, to be seen upon the Ohio River, after 1794, were broken up and sold at the end of the voyage, the produce disposed of, and the settler returned to his farm, a thousand or fifteen hundred miles, as best he could.[38] The building of larger craft, was undertaken at some of the river towns. In the year 1800, some of the enterprising men of Marietta, formed a company for building a small vessel, and actually built, rigged, and loaded with produce, a brig of 104 tons, named the St. Clair. She cleared from Marietta in 1801, went to New Orleans, from there to Havana, and then to Philadelphia where she was consigned and finally sold.[39] The St. Clair was the first rigged vessel ever built on the Ohio River.[40] From this time until 1808, not less than twenty ships, brigs, and schooners, from 150 to 450 tons burthen, were built at Marietta, besides some of Mr. Jefferson's gun boats, two or three of whose number were lost in attempting to cross the Falls of the Ohio when the water was too low.[41] In 1807 Schultz says that there were three ships of about 300 tons burthen each, and two large brigs, besides smaller craft, on the stocks at Marietta.[42] The price of ship building in Marietta was fifty dollars a ton, rigged and equipped completely for sea.[43] Ellicott in his Journal for the years 1796-1800, says that vessels have been built and sent to the West Indies.[44] Large boats had been built at Elizabethtown on the Monongahela, before 1803, and sent to the West Indies.[45] Previous to 1807, about twelve brigs and schooners had been launched at Pittsburg;[46] and brigs had been built at Frankfort and sent down the Kentucky, Ohio, and Mississippi Rivers.[47] The Falls of the Ohio were very dangerous to strangers unacquainted with the navigation. In 1807 pilots might be procured who would conduct travelers over in safety. Two dollars per boat was charged for this service.[48] FOOTNOTES: [1] Michaux, F. A., Travels, Early W. Travels, III., 191. Used by Pittsburg traders to convey haberdashery goods, more especially tea and coffee, to settlers on the River. [2] Hall, J., The West, 110-111. [3] Hildreth, S. P., Memoirs, 422. [4] Hall, J., The West, 111-113. [5] Ibid., 10. [6] Latrobe, C. J., Rambler in North America, I., 103. [7] Michaux, F. A., Travels, Early W. Travels, III., 159-160. [8] Hall, J., The West, 113. [9] Ibid, 113-114, [10] Burnet, J., Notes, 399-400, [11] Ibid., 400. Collot, V., Journey, I., 39. "The carriage of an hundred weight from Philadelphia to Pittsburg is from $8 to $10, and from Baltimore $7 or $8. Collot, V., Journey, II., 198. "The carriage from Philadelphia to the Illinois is 12 piastres the hundred weight--the expense from Baltimore are the same. The expense from New Orleans to the Illinois, is 5 piastres the French hundred weight."