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are produced, and in early days, before the rich prairies were redu- 
ced by successive crops, one hundred bushels of corn per acre, were 
not uncommon. By the rich farmers, cultivation is carried on in 
a style and grandeur proportionate to the exuberance of the crops. 
Fields of one hundred acres of wheat, or of corn, are often seen, and 
frequently they are extended to three or four hundred. A few years 
since when wheat commanded a dollar per bushel, a rich farmer on 
the Pickaway plains, cultivated one thousand acres in a single field, 
which when undulating undera gentle breeze, might not unaptly be 
called an ocean of verdure. In all the counties bordering on the 
- canal, there has since it was opened, been an increase in the value of 
wheat of from ten to fifteen cents per bushel, and so of many other 
articles; the canal giving them the advantage of the New York 
rriarkets, whereas before, they had only that of the agp 2 SH 
Canals. 
For so young a state, Ohio may be considered one of the most 
enterprising of the united imily Her ‘counts “ebver: amr extetit of 
four hundred miles, ard have 
than five millions nut —— eva main canal ‘tetching frdiee Line 
Erie to the Ohio the most fertile portions 
of the State, and dorphetes the tine: of water communication between 
the Hudson and the Mississippi. It is three hundred and eight miles 
in length, forming a strong link in that chain of turnpikes and canals, 
which, like so many ligaments serve to bind together this fair republic, 
composed of such repulsive materials. ‘The Miami Canal, between 
Dayton and Cincinnati, is sixty-six miles in 2 The remainder’ 
is made up of side cuts and feeders. — 
The following extracts, taken from the very able and interesting 
report of the canal commissioners, made in the winter of 1833, will 
give a view of its route, and the region through which it passes. 
“The Ohio Canal, at its northern extremity, terminates in the 
Cuyahoga River, on the east side, about half a mile from the junc- 
tion of that river with Lake Erie, and at the south westerly corner 
of the village of Cleveland. That section of the river which extends 
from its mouth to the bridge, about three hundred yards above the 
termination of the canal, forms the harbor, into which schooners, 
sloops and steam-boats enter from the lake, to discharge and receive 
their cargoes from warehouses, or meet with canal boats for the mu- 
tual exchange of their lading. ‘The average breadth of the river is 
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