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sand cubic feet per minute, and for more than half the year it affords 
five times this quantity. For the convenience of visiters, Mr. New- 
berry has erected a strong and safe flight of steps, by which to de- 
scend to the foot of the cliffs, at a point which affords a fine view of 
the falls, and a the perpendicular walls are more than one hun- 
dred feet hig 
Old ees, May 15.—The apple is but iid fairly in blossom 
at this place, while at Marietta the blossoms had fallen ten days 
since, There was a slight frost this morning. The old portage from 
the Cuyahoga to the Tuscarawas, passed across the tract between 
these two streams, beginning at the foot of the falls, and taking a 
southerly course. ‘The distance was about ten miles, and was the 
route pursued by the savages, and by Indian traders in early days. 
After the peace of 1795, white men occupied the same route in 
carrying goods and merchandise from the Lake to the towns on the 
heads of the Muskingum River, and even as low down the stream 
as Zanesville, as late as the year 1805 or 1806. We left Cuyahoga 
Falls at 9 A. M., crossing the Little Cuyahoga, a fine mill stream, 
after travelling two miles in a southerly direction; and shortly after 
the small canal that conducts the water from the Little Cuyahoga to 
the fourth lock, below the summit level. The village, where it ter- 
minates, is called “‘ Cascade,’ from the rapid descent of the water 
for the use of machinery. The water power thus acquired is very 
great. This village lies half a mile below the town of Akron, and 
will in a few years be united with it in a continuous street, so that 
the towns can only be distinguished by the ‘‘ Cascade” portion, and 
the “Akron” portion. The waste weirs furnish an immense amount 
of water power, a considerable portion of which is already occupied 
by mills for flour, furnaces, &c. The population in the two villages 
is said to be fifteen hundred. In travelling from “the Falls” to the 
summit level, we passed through the village of Middlebury, a very 
thriving and industrious place, seated at the falls of the Little Cuya- 
hoga. ‘This stream is about thirty yards wide, and takes its rise in 
* Cuyahoga village is by far the most bustling and active town I have seen in 
my journey. The demand for lots and new buildings, has given an impulse to 
every ind while the rush and hurry of the waters, and rapid motion of the saw 
mills, has communicated, by sympathy, a quickening influence to mu 
motions of the inhabitants, which to me was very striking and apparent. The 
w two made at any other spot. The same rapidity of movement 
stasis: in every other action, which may be rationally explained in no 
other way than by the power of sympathy. 
