240 Ten Days in Ohio. 
ed in the common earth, without any attempt at tumuli ; and occupy 
so large a space, that only a dense population, and a long period of 
time, could have furnished such numbers. 
On the borders of the Ohio Canal, which passes a short distance 
west of the town, are built several very large and substantial brick 
ware houses. ‘The base of one side stands in the water, so that boats 
deliver and receive their cargoes, with very little trouble. 
Scioto River—Aqueduct. 
The canal crosses the Scioto river, a little below the center of the 
town, by means of an aqueduct, supported by two abutments and 
four piers; built in the most substantial manner, of a very fine grain- 
ed and beautiful sandstone, mentioned in the diary of yesterday. It 
was a Herculean task, to haul these stones, eight miles in wagons and 
carts, over a muddy road. ‘The masonry is based on oaken piles, 
driven eighteen or twenty feet into the bed of the river. The piers 
are forty feet in height, and every stone being cut to a certain thick- 
ness, (about fifteen inches), and laid in strong cement, make a beauti- 
ful appearance. They are also forty feet in depth, and ten feet in 
thickness, rounded on the upper, or side presented to the current, 
and finished in such a way as to resemble vast pillars, crowned with 
their capitals. ‘The aqueduct is a wooden trunk, four hundred and 
forty eight feet in length. The reaches of the trunk between the piers, 
are supported by wooden arches, of eighty feet span. A lock with a 
fall of nine feet, built of the same beautiful material, is connected 
with the abutment on the west side of the aqueduct. The canal is 
now open from Chilicothe to Lake Erie, and boats pass daily. The 
Scioto river is here, one hundred and fifty yards wide, and is a hand- 
some rapid stream. 
Soi and Agriculture. 
The bottom lands are low and subject to occasional floodings, but 
are of a very rich soil. Pickaway county is nearly square in out- 
line, being twenty-two by twenty-one miles in extent, and contains 
sixteen thousand inhabitants. The Scioto river passes through it 
from N. to 8. dividing it into two nearly equal portions. The lands 
on the east side are of a very excellent quality and produce all the 
different kinds of grain in the most luxuriant abundance. ‘The coun- 
ty, contains four varieties of soils, wood lands, barrens, plains and 
prairies. On suitable soils, from forty to forty-five bushels of wheat 
