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The young ladies’ academy has been established*two or three 
years, and is in a flourishing condition. ‘The two departments are 
under the direction of nine trustees, with corporate powers. The 
cost of the buildings, library, apparatus, &c. was about $8,000, which 
was raised by donation from the inhabitants of Marietta and the vi- 
cinity. j 
MARIETTA TO ZANESVILLE. 
The road from Marietta to Zanesville, for the first twenty miles, 
passes up the valley of the Muskingum, is composed entirely of rich 
alluvion, and varies in’ width from half a mile to a mile between the 
hills which line each side of the valley. . 
The river is about two hundred yards in width, and of wiitheieit 
depth for steam boat navigation, a part of the year, and for ‘‘ keels” 
at all seasons. It holds a devious course through the valley, some- 
times visiting the base of the hills on the east side, and sometimes on 
the west, leaving barely room for the road, constituting what is called 
“ narrows,” while on the opposite side is found a wide “ bottom.” 
These bottoms are converted into beautiful farms, and produce abund- 
ant crops of grass and grain. Fruit trees grow with wonderful ra- 
pidity. An apple tree is now standing a little way above the mouth 
of Coal Run, twenty miles from Marietta, which, at the age of thirty 
years, was three feet in diameter, a few feet from the ground, and 
produced apples, in one season, sufficient for twenty barrels of cider. 
Allowing seven bushels to a barrel, we have one hundred and forty 
bushels of apples, a prodigious ‘quantity for a single tree. 
Twelve miles above Marietta, we crossed the mouth of Bear 
Creek, in a “ flat boat,” the bridge once erected here being removed 
by a flood, and the “ back water” from the Muskmgum being too 
deep to admit of fording. 
Two miles further up we crossed Cat’s creek, on a bridge. The 
early settlers often named the streams from some incident or feat, in 
hunting, which took place on its waters, instead of retaining the 
names of the aborigines, which are much more harmonious and sig- 
nificant. 
The bottoms between these two streams are wide and rich. The 
crops of wheat look well, but the Indian corn is barely appearing 
above ground, and looks pale and sickly. The farmers generally 
complained of the damaged condition of their “seed corn,” so that 
they have, in many instances, replanted their fields two or three times. 
This defect in germinating, was doubtless owing to the sudden and 
