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ing, and bricks manufacturing in all directions. Streets and 

 roads were undergoing extensive improvement in and around 

 the city, while villas were being erected on the surrounding 

 heights. The ship yards were full of bustle, and craft of 

 various kinds were rising into existence. At the close of the 

 year 1832, one hundred and thirty steam-boats had been built 

 at Cincinnati. 



The city is built on the site of some Indian tumuli, one of 

 which I saw, near the western extremity, in tolerable preserva 

 tion. I hope the inhabitants will protect this monument of a 

 former race, by enclosing it with an iron railing, and adorn 

 ing the foreground with flowers. 



I attended the theatre in the evening. Amongst the 

 players were Sinclair, Thome, Mrs Knight, and Miss Clara 

 Fisher. The audience were numerous, and somewhat noisy 

 in their plaudits. 



The agriculture, seen from the waters of the Mississippi 

 and Ohio, is very limited, and which I cannot well describe. 

 Cultivation becomes extended on approaching Cincinnati, 

 and fields of wheat were seen on the sloping banks. The 

 hills, three or four hundred feet high, which I ascended, to 

 the east of the city, were covered with verdant pasturage of 

 grasses and clovers, on which excellent cattle and sheep were 

 browsing. Waggon loads of pumpkins were passing into the 

 town, and I observed many working oxen eating this vegeta 

 ble in courts. 



