Coshocton.— Ancient Cemetery.— Coal. 69 
Coshocton County:—Coshocton County contains about fourteen 
thousand inhabitants. Its surface is hilly, but very fertile and pro- 
ductive in wheat and other grains. The hills abound in bituminous 
coal and iron ore. Several salt wells have been sunk in the county, 
on Wills Creek, and on the Muskingum, which make considerable 
salt. ‘The wells are not deep, and are probably connected, on the 
north western margin of the saliferous deposits. 
Town of Coshocton.—Coshocton, the seat of justice for this 
county, is finely situated at the junction of the Tuscarawas and the 
Walhouding rivers. ‘The ground on which it is built, lies in four 
broad natural terraces, each elevated about nine feet above the other. 
The last one is nearly one thousand feet wide. The situation could 
hardly be altered for the better by the hand of man. The present 
population is about five hundred. 
Ancient cemetery.—A short distance below Coshocton, on one of 
those elevated, gravelly alluvions, so common on the rivers of the 
West, has been recently discovered a very singular ancient burying 
ground. From some remains of wood, still apparent in the earth 
around the bones, the bodies seem all to have been deposited in 
coffins ; and what is still more curious, is the fact that the bodies 
buried bere were generally not more than from three to four and a 
half feet in length. They are very numerous, and must have been 
tenants of a considerable city, or their numbers could not have been 
so great. A large number of graves have been opened, the inmates 
of which are all of this pigmy race. No metallic articles or uten- 
sils have yet been found, to throw light on the period or the nation 
to which they belonged. Similar burying grounds have been found 
in Tennessee, and near St. Louis in Missouri. 
Coal.—The main deposit of coal, near Coshocton, is said to be 
nine feet thick, and lies much lower in the hills than at Newcastle. 
It is probably the same stratum that is found below the bed of the 
Muskingum River, at Zanesville. 
May 18th.—We left Roscoe and passed down the Muskingum 
valley, generally near the base of the hills, to Websport, a small 
village of warehouses onthe canal. At this point a side cut is taken 
out to the Muskingum River, across the bottom lands, which here 
are more than two miles wide, and continue nearly of this width for 
eight or ten miles up and down the river. From the outlet of this 
‘side cut, dams are to be thrown across the stream at intervals, for a 
navigation to the town of Zanesville, a distance of four- 
