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946. July 22nd. Arrive 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 1 2 feet, where it is 600 feet wide ; the 

 creek, too, falls in by a fine cascade. What 

 a power for machinery ! 1 should think that as 

 much effect might be produced by the power 

 here afforded as by the united manual labour 

 of all the inhabitants of the state. The naviga 

 tion 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 



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

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

 Mellish's Travels, vol. ii. 



