----------------------------Original message---------------------------- Ms. Farrell The river you are seeking may be the Shawanoe river, which appears on a 1784 map of the United States by Abel Buell. The river, located in northwestern Tennessee, is now called the Cumberland river. If this is the river you are seeking it would have been neccessary to travel up the Cumberland to the Ohio, down the Ohio to the junction of the Mississippi, and then down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Whew. Hope this helps. Ed Redmond Geography and Map, LC eredmondmail.loc.gov.