David Sprague Crandall next crossed Lake Erie by steamer, landing in Cleveland.
Ohio's recent work on their canal system allowed him to travel several more days to the Ohio River, where he traveled again by steamer which he described as, "a little squeaking stern-wheeler which was aground half the time and the passengers kept running back and forth across the boat to rock it through through the sand bars." I take it he was not overly impressed.
It was in Cincinnati that he saw President Jackson as well as William Henry Harrison, two War of 1812 heroes. Of course, Harrison would himself be elected to the presidency four years later.
--Cooter
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