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county town of my native county ! I thought of Colonel F r, 



and his conduct towards my poor, unfortunate townsman, 

 Gallant ! I thought of the poor, miserable creatures, men, 

 women, and children, who, in the bloody year of 1812, were first 

 instigated by spies to commit arson, and then pursued into death 

 by the dealers in human blood. Amongst the sufferers, upon 

 this particular occasion, there was a boy, who was silly, and who 

 would, at any time, have jumped into a pit for a half-penny : 

 he was not fourteen years old ; and when he was about to be 

 hanged, actually called out for his &quot; mammy &quot; to come and save 

 him ! Who, that has a heart in his bosom, can help feeling 

 indignation against the cruel monsters ! Who can help feeling 

 a desire to see their dreadful power destroyed ! The day must 

 come, when the whole of the bloody tragedies of Lancashire will 

 be exposed. In the mean while, here I am in safety from the 

 fangs of the monsters, who oppress and grind my countrymen. 

 The thought of these oppressions, however, I carry about with 

 me ; and I cannot help its sometimes bursting forth into words. 



946. July 22nd. Airive at Zanesville,* a place finely situated 

 for manufactures, in a nook of the Muskingham, just opposite 

 to the mouth of Licking Creek. It has almost every advantage 

 for manufacturing of all sorts, both as to local situation and as to 

 materials ; it excels Wheeling and Steubenville, in many respects, 

 and, in some, even Pittsburgh. The river gives very fine falls 

 near the town, one of them of 12 feet, where it is 600 feet wide ; 

 the creek, too, falls in by a fine cascade. What a power for 

 machinery ! I should think that as much effect might be pro 

 duced by the power here afforded as by the united manual labour 

 of all the inhabitants of the state. The navigation is very good all 

 the way up to the town, and is now continued round the falls by a 

 canal with locks, so that boats can go nearly close up to Lake 

 Erie. The bowels of the earth afford coal, iron ore, stone, free 

 stone, lime-stone, and clays ; all of the best, I believe, and the 

 last, the very best yet discovered in this country, and, perhaps, 

 as good as is to be found in any country. All these materials are 

 found in inexhaustible quantities in the hills and little ridges on 

 the sides of the river and creek, arranged as if placed by the hand 

 of man for his own use. In short, this place has the four elements 

 in the greatest perfection that I have any where yet seen in 

 America. As to manufactures, it is, like Wheeling and Steu 

 benville, nothing in comparison to Pittsburgh. 



947. Nature has done her part ; nothing is left wanting but 

 machines to enable the people of Ohio to keep their flour at home, 

 instead of exporting it, at their own expence, to support those 

 abroad who are industrious enough to send them back coats, 

 knives, and cups and saucers. 



* For a more particular account of this place, as well, indeed, 

 as of most of the other towns I have visited, see Mr. Mellish s 

 Travels, vol. ii. 



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