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ANGRY WATERS
The February 22, 1862, issue of Harper's Weekly published this sketch of a packet boat from
Maysville, Kentucky, landing at the wharf at Cincinnati, Ohio, during a flood a few weeks
earlier, on January 25. In submitting his sketch, artist George M. Finch wrote that such
floods “only occur about once in 15 years.” It seems Finch was better at sketching than he
was at river forecasting. In fact, major floods often swept down the Ohio in back-to-back
years.
