CHILLICOTHE.—This town was laid out in the thick woods, in the summer of 1796 by general Nathaniel Massie, assisted by general Duncan McArthur. The latter erected the first white man's dwelling in the town which was made of the barks of trees from the thick forest here then growing. This town, as we have seen, was once the seat of the state and territorial government, and here' the constitution was framed, during the month of November 1802, seven years after this town was laid out. Its streets are wide and straight, crossing each other at right angles and the town faces the Scioto, which bounds it on the north. It contains about five thousand people, many of whom are among the wealthiest in the state. It enjoys many advantages, such as lying on the Ohio and Erie canal, and all the roads seem to centre here from all points of the compass. And these roads are in a state of improvement rapidly at present. The land along the Scioto river, along Paint creek and Deer creek, is excellent. Here the Scioto enters the hilly region, and Chillicothe has around it, a highly romantic country, with all the varieties of hill and dale, of woods and highly cultivated farms, of lind and water, of the slow moving Scioto and the canal with its boats and its commerce, with the stage's horn, and the canal boat's bugle to arrest our attention.

The state of society here is highly cultivated, and even facinating, none more so any where in the Union. The ladies of Chillicothe have always been admired for their beauty, elegance of manners, education and pure patriotism. It was here, that these ladies voted a sword to major Croghan, in the last war, for his gallant deeds in battle when defending Fort Stevenson. Female education is greatly promoted by Chillicotheans, and their sons are not neglected in this respect. From its wealth, its position, its fertile soil around it, its canal and water power, Chillicothe must become an important inland town, a place of wealth and commerce.

Its professional men of all sorts, are now, and always have been highly respectable for their talents, learning, industry and strict moral principles. The citizens of this town are as active, enterprising and useful as any others in the state,

Many of its citizens have at different periods, filled the very highest places of trust within the gift of Ohio. Three of them have been governors of the state, and several of them have been members of both houses of congress, and Chillicothe now has a United States senator and a member of the house of representatives.

The people of this town have always had a great influence in all matters of any importance to the state. They have deserved all the confidence thus reposed in them by their fellow citizens.

CIRCLEVILLE, is on the Ohio and Erie canal, twenty-six miles below Columbus, and nineteen above Chillicothe. The canal here crosses the Scioto river by an aqueduct about thirty rods in length. This town now contains about three thousand people, and is fast increasing, in buildings, population and mercantile business. In this vicinity are the Pickaway plains, famed in all times past, for their fertility; and Pickaway county contains more level, rich land, than any other one in the state,

There is a bridge across the Scioto here, which cost twenty thousand dollars.

In this county, more pork and flour are produced from their own grain, than in any other county of its size, in the Union. The farmers are becoming wealthy, and are buying large quantities of land, in newer countries. We have four churches and about twelve schools. One or two for young ladies deserve great praise, and receive it. The town is fast increasing in size and business of all sorts.

DELAWARE, is twenty-four miles north of Columbus, and is a thriving town. It is older than the last named town, but, not having any connection by water, with the main canal, as Columbus has, by its nagivable feeder, Delaware has not grown up, like our canal towns. However its day must come yet, as the country all about it, is good, and will one day, be well settled and well cultivated, inasmuch as lands are cheap and good, in Delaware county. So of MARION, above Delaware, on the

turnpike from Columbus to Sandusky city. The country all around Marion is excellent and will be well improved within a few

years.

SPRINGFIELD, the shire town of Clark county, is romantically situated on the United States road, forty three miles west of Columbus, and seventy two north westwardly from Cincinnati. It contains three thousand people and increases rapidly, in all respects.

ZANESVILLE, is situated seventy six miles from the Ohio river, following the meandering of the Muskingum river, on which the town stands. If we include Putnam and West Zanesville in our estimate, we may be allowed to say, that Zanesville now contains, seven thousand people. The old congress granted three sections of land, containing six hundred and forty acres each, to Ebenezer Zane, for marking a road from Wheeling across, what is now Ohio State, by the way of Zanesville. Zane marked the road, and for his pay, located one section, at Zanesville, and laid out a town on it; another section was located near "the standing rock" and Lancaster was located on that section. The other section was located opposite Chillicothe, on the north side of the Scioto river. Humphrey Fullerton bought the last named section of Zane, and his widow owns it now. The town of Zanesville was laid out in 1799, and a few cabins built. The mail had been carried along this "bridle path," about two years before that period, on horse back, and so continued to be carried until about twenty years since.

The natural, as well as artificial advantages of Zanesville, are great. The Muskingum here creates a great water power in its rapids. Fossil coal is here in abundance, and the iron ore is equally so. Salt water, too, is in never failing abundance, here or in the vicinity. The United States road passes the Muskingum here, and manufactures of many kinds here flourish greatly.

The state has made a slack water navigation, from Zanesville to Dresden, on the canal, and the same power is employing its energies to complete this slackwater navigation to the Ohio river. This will be effected within four or five years, So

that, with its salt water, its iron ore, and above all, its stirring, active, restless, enterprising population of seven thousand, in number, Zanesville bids fair to become, at no distant day, one of the largest manufacturing towns in the western states, containing seventy thousand people. The clays in this vicinity, equal any now used in England, France or Germany, for earthenware, and we should not be disappointed, if Zanesville should be the very first town on this continent to firmly establish the manufacture of the real Liverpool ware, on the banks of the Muskingum river. The naturalist would find many things to interest him here; and the best place, which we know, wherein, to study our geology and mineralogy, is Zanesville. There is an Athenaeum and a well endowed school here, and there is a taste for science widely diffused among the people of this vicinity. Freestone, limestone, and water lime, are here in abundance, and finally, if Zanesville does not become, a great town, for an inland one, we do not see the cause of such a failure. All the elements of prosperity are here, and the very people to use them to advantage, arc already here, as a nucleus around which, a great manufacturing town will grow up.

CLEVELAND, has been often alluded to already, in this work, and we connot easily forget so important a town. It is so, from its position, from its natural advantages, and from its intelligent active, wealthy and enterprising population. Taking both sides of the river into view, Cleveland now contains, twelve thousand people, but in 1825, it contained only six hundred. It is delightfully situated on a high sandy bank of Lake Erie, seventy feet above the lake, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga river and on both sides of the Erie and Ohio canal. In the summer season, while its port is crowded with its mercantile marine, of lake vessels, steamers and canal boats, Cleveland is a busy, bustling city. If we look off on the lake we see many a sail, spread to the breeze, on this beautiful inland water.

This town will soon run up to fifty thousand people, and forever, continue to be, an important inland city. The people here, have all the elements of prosperity, in or near the town; freestone for building, limestone,cedar and gypsum on

the lake islands; iron ore and coal, in Tuscarawas county, on the canal; pine forests, in Canada, across the lake; water power in abundance, in the river and in the canal; and a population as stirring, enterprising and industrious as any in the world.

TOLEDO, is near Lake Erie, on the Maumee river, and on what soon will be, the splendid Maumee canal. It was nothing three years since, but it now contains, three thousand people, who have made a rail road, thirty miles in length, leading in the direction of Lake Michigan at its southern end. This will necessarily become, one of our largest inland towns. It stands on the land for which we so long and so righteously, contended with Michigan, who had not even a shadow of a claim to it, founded in justice.

Of our other important towns, DAYTON, at the mouth of the Mad river, on the great Miami, claims a prominent and conspicuous place, in our volume. It now contains, about seven thousand people, as good, as industrious and enterprising as any we have, in our state. The Dayton canal is now rapidly progressing towards the lake, along the Maumee river, although only one hundred miles of it are entirely finished, yet the remainder soon will be completed. The soil, far and wide, around Daytion, is as fertile as it can be, and there is a water power, in the Mad river and in the canal, very valuable. Dayton' must always be an important town. Manufactures flourish. There are now, in Dayton, two cotton factories, three grist mills, two saw mills, one silk mill, and all sorts of factories, where water power is employed by ingenious mechanics. And the country all around Dayton is full of mills and factories.

NEWARK, in Licking county, on the Ohio and Erie canal, is located in a densely settled and most fertile country. The town itself contains now scarcely three thousand people, but from its position, on the canal, surrounded by a fertile country whose abundant produce, will always come here, Newark must always be a very important point for inland trade and