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324 Notes on certain parts of the Staie of Ohia. 
~The State of the Roads. : eae 
_ The roads, through the summer and autumn months, are 
tolerably good. In the winter and spring, they partake of 
the quality of all the Ohio roads, an abundance of mud. Tn 
those roads, which border the Ohio and Muskingum rivers, 
the travelling is very delightful in the summer months. The 
feet in Bo 
with a kee 
down stream, they make use of oars. The prificipal 
merce of the country, is carried on in these boats. ‘They 
are usually navigated by six or eight men. —Ship-building 
was carried on here, quite briskly, fora number of years; 
and as many as twelve or fourteen vessels were built, of 
from one hundred and fifty to three hundred tons burthen. 
Some of them were completely rigged, at Marietta ; others 
were rigged at New Orleans. The embargo first gave @ 
eheck to the spirit of building; and the loss or damage of 
several ships at the falls of Ohio, has puta stop to any fur- 
- November, the sail is of great use tothem. In their voyages 
x ee com ) n i 
ther attempts. Steam-boats now seem to be the order of the ‘ 
