238 Ten Days in Ohio. 
weekly, one German and two English newspapers. There are large 
and well filled stores of merchandise, &c. &c. The present population 
is about two thousand. The Ohio canal passes within eight miles of 
the town and the stock has been taken up for opening a lateral cut, 
estimated to cost $50,000, which will soon be completed. Fairfield 
County is thirty miles long and twenty four miles broad and contains 
25,000 inhabitants. 
The Hockhocking. 
We left Lancaster at half past seven, crossing a toll bridge over 
the Hockhocking, which is here a small stream, with a muddy bot- 
tom and low banks; we then passed a small prairie west of the 
bridge, the upper, or surface soil, being black and rich ; but the substra- 
tum composed of gravel and pebbles, many of the latter are of prim- 
itive rocks, It is a compound of primitive, transition and secondary 
materials, the ruins of former rock formations. The country for the 
first ten miles west of the Hockhocking, is made up of low hills with 
fertile valleys between. The hills are composed of argillaceous earth, 
filled with boulders and pebbles, of primitive and secondary rocks, 
all of which are rounded and waterworn. 
PICKAWAY COUNTY. 
We now entered the borders of Pickaway County, turning off 
westerly into the valley of the Scioto and leaving the “ great thor- 
ough-fare of the west,” on our left. The country from this to Cir- 
cleville, a distance of eleven miles, is flat, with many wet marshy 
places of small extent, the soil rather thin, except in the wet spots 
and pretty well timbered. The boulders, when seen, are of the 
same ‘character with those passed. Eight miles east of Circleville 
near the Lancaster road, is a quarry of fine grained sandstone, from 
which the material used in building the aqueduct across the Scioto, 
was taken. The texture is compact and beautiful; splitting very 
readily into blocks of ten, and twenty feet in length, " of any desi- 
red width and thickness. The color is a light brown, easily wrought 
and suffers no decomposition on exposure to the vicissitudes of the 
weather, a quality not common to all our sandstones. We reached 
Circleville at 1. P. M. 
CIRCLEVILLE—Ancient Works. 
May 26.—Morning cloudy and rainy, temperature at 5 A. M. 
37°. Nimbus at 8 A. M. with thunder, day cloudy, with high 
