ISO©.] 



Londiniana. 



4i7 



which empties into the Beevor about 

 two miles tVom the town ot' that name. 

 This creek, is called after an officer, who 

 comraiinded a body of" United States' 

 troops, and who were here utterly de- 

 ftroyed by the Indians. From Brady's 

 Creek to Grcerfburgh, where we dined, 

 about 26 miles, the country is very wav- 

 ine, tlie foil indifferent and clayey, and, 

 wliat is even worfe, ahnoti all the titles 

 o the land are litigated. Grcerfburgh 

 is a ilourilhing little town ; and though 

 not commenced till about three years 

 before my vifit to it, then contained be- 

 tween 30 and 40 houl'es ; and there were 

 at that time 12 building. Lots of 100 

 feet front and 140 deep were Ibid, when 

 the town was laid out, at 12 dollars 

 each: they were ertimated when we were 

 there, at 10 dollars. Land in the neigli- 

 bourhood iold at mwQ dollars the acre. 

 As we had a long ftage to make this 

 evening, we did nut Hop to have auy 

 thing cooked at Creerlburgh, but fed 

 our horfes, and refrelhed ourfelves with 

 cyder, bread, cheefe, and butter. In 

 quitting this town, we alfo palVcd the 

 lad brick houfe we faw on our journey, 

 until we returned to tire fame fpot. It 

 is 16 miles from Grecrlburgh to the line 

 -which feparatcs tiie ftate <if Peimlylva- 

 nia from that of Ohio. This line is no- 

 thing more than trees, cut down in a 

 Itraight courfe from north to fouth, about 

 12 to 1.5 yards wide, and extending from 

 Lake J-h-ie to Virginia. It palfes through 

 a country at prefeut thinly fettled ; and, 

 from what I could learn, polfelfmg but 

 httie better than a niiddlmg foil. The 

 land ceded by the Indians to the United 

 States by Wayne's treaty, and which 

 was within tlie limits of the now ftate 

 of Ohio, has Imce lieen divided into four 

 counties, and into farms uf from 150 to 

 200 acres each, and fold for the benefit 

 of the public. The county of Colum- 

 biana was the only one oi tliefe which we 

 j)alfed through, and whicli atforded no 

 object worthy particular notice ; or, at- 

 leaft, none which will not be C(|ually de- 

 fcribed when I come to Trumbull : for 

 new countries much refemble each other. 

 Poland, where we arrived at about feven 

 o'clock in the evening, is the firli towu- 

 ihip in the county of Trumbull, abutting 

 on that of Columbiana ; here we ilept 

 that night, ;uid as my readers may re- 

 f)iiire limiiar ie|/ol'e, 1 lliall conclude this 

 klter with the al\'uraiicfc of tlie refpect 



<'f i{,lfll\i;i) DiNlIOKE. 



AtcaiiHliiii, Mill April, 180G. 



P. S However foreign it may be to the 

 burinci't; of my letters^ in-rmit me to put you 



an 1 your countrymen riglit on an importaaC 

 fubjeft, which, as well as moft otbeis rela- 

 tive to the United States, Engllflimen a|'pnar 

 much mifinfovmed about : — 1 mean the faci- 

 lity with which foreign failors, in tlie fervice 

 of the United States, are faid to receive pro- 

 teflions. The fait is, none can procure 

 them, except they he citizens of the United 

 States. To acquire this honourable dilUnc- 

 tion, the applicant mult have refided at Icaft 

 five years in the United States, and two years 

 at leail within the ilate or territory in which 

 he is naturalized; and further, he muft fa- 

 tisfy the court, that during thai time he ha« 

 conducted himfelf as a man of good moral 

 conduc-t. To procure his protcttion, he muft 

 prove, by one (at leait) atfidavit, tliat he is 

 a citizen of the United States. The protec* 

 tion then defignates his name and perfon, 

 his height, the colour of his hair and eyes, 

 and the various particulars which dillinguifli 

 man from man. But you fay thefe protec- 

 tions are fraudulently purchaled. Without 

 entering into their defence, fr even enquiring 

 whether the Britifn nation would permit 

 their veflels to be examined, and men vio- 

 lently forced out of them, and compelled to 

 fight the allies of their country, I certainly 

 may aik, how fnould a protection deCcribinj 

 fo minutely, as I have ftatcd above, one 

 man, be rendered ufeiul to another .' 



J'or the Moiitlili/ ^fugnzine. 



londima>;a. 



NO. VII. 

 HANGING THE STREETS WITH TAPESTRY. 



WE find this ceremony praiStil'ed at 

 the entrance of Lady Elizabeth, 

 Queen of Henry VII., into the city of 

 London. " Al the Itrets ther wliiche 

 Ihe (hulde pafl'e by wer cknly drelfed 

 anrl liefcne with cloth of tapeftrye and 

 arras, and fome ftreetcs, as Chepe, hang- 

 ed with riche clothes of golde, vehettes, 

 and hikes." This was in the year 1431. 

 (See Leiand. Coll. in Opufcul, p. 220. 

 edit. 1770.) 



LONDON BRIDGE WATER-WORKS. 



The Thames water was firlt conveyed 

 into the city by a machine eretted in an 

 arch of the In-idge by Peter ilaurice, » 

 German engineer, in 1582. BevisBul- 

 ni:ir, twelve years after, fet up a large 

 liiirfc-engine of four pumps, at Broken 

 Wharf, Thames-ltreet, which ibon prov- 

 ed too expcnfive to be worked. Tl.e 

 works at the bridge are particularly dt- 

 fciibid by Henry Beighton, hi Ko. 417 

 of the Philofophical Traiifadio;is. (Cmn- 

 dcii's Britanniii, Ed. Gough, 17U9, vol. i. 

 p. 27.) 



SI. MAGNUS. 



Peacham, in liis " Graphice," LonfL 



lCd2, having ineiitiontU the Ini^li prices; 



Li.'^ wliicli 



