224 se Ten Days in Ohio. 
cent country are found; the horizon being extended to the distance 
of ten or-fifteen miles, a favor seldom afforded the traveller in this 
part of the state. The surrounding region is generally settled ; and 
farms and recent “ clearings,” appear in every direction. Brow the 
passage of Meigs’s Creek at Stevens’, not even the smallest branch 
crosses the road, until we reach the waters of Salt Creek, a distance 
of twenty miles. ‘The road being slippery from the rain on the ar- 
gillaceous soil, we did not reach Chandlers, a distance of seventeen 
miles, until 12 0’clock A. M. In the valley of Salt Creek, at the 
foot of this long ridge, is situated a pleasant little village, called 
Chandlersville. 
Muskingum Mining Company—Fruitless Exploration for Silver. 
It is also a memorable spot as the scene of the operations of the 
« Muskingum Mining Company ;” occasioning “ day dreams” of 
wealth; and a thirst ‘for speculation equal in intensity, though not 
in extent, to the celebrated South Sea project, got up many years ago 
in London by John Law and associates. Our Ohio bubble, howev- 
er, was not so disastrous in its explosion; the _— falling generally 
se who were able to bear it without muc 
While our dinner is preparing, I will narrate oe pit facts, as : 
think I have a right so to do, having been one of the original Stockhold- 
ers. Early in December, A. D. 1819, an intelligent physician, 
who then lived at the mouth of Cat’s Creek, a stream we cros- 
sed yesterday, in journeying to Zanesville, passed the night at,Mr. 
Chandlers, the owner of a salt well then in operation, near the foot of 
the long ridge, on a small branch of Salt Creek. The doctor having 
some taste for Mineralogy and Chemistry, was enquiring of Mr. Chan- 
dler, as they sat conversing together by the fire in the evening, how 
many different kinds of rock he | had passed in boring his well. It was 
about four hundred feet indepth; and among other strata passed, he 
said there was one at one hundred and twenty feet of intense hard- 
ness, so much so, that they could bore only an inch, or even less 
in aday.’ While passing through this rock, a distance of six ot eight 
feet, the pump brought up several small pieces and particles of a me- 
tallic substance, so pure as to be malleable, flattening under the ham- 
mer.. They had tried to melt it in an iron ladle, but could not. Al- 
though several years had passed, he thought that by searching he 
could still find some small bits in the earth that had been brought 
up and emptied out near the well. In the morning -they visited 
the spot, and were so fortunate or rather unfortunate, as to find 
