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of the Mississippi, and pass over the miry, marshy summit, at 

 their heads, and visit the Great Valley of the St. Lawrence. 

 And, we will cross over to the 



MAUMEE, 



Of lake Erie. The surfaces of the states of Ohio and Indi- 

 ana, have, in a friendly way, contributed equally to make 

 this river, as the citizens of the same states now arc uniting 

 their efforts to make a splendid canal along its whole length. 

 It assumes its name, at Fort Wayne in Indiariu.- The town 

 of Fort Wayne stands at the confluence, of the St. Mary''s, 

 which rises in Ohio; and the St. Joseph's, a'^treaiim of Indi- 

 ana. After this junction of waters, the Maumee, flows Ohwatds, 

 crosses into the state of Ohio, and feeling new life, after ithas 

 moved along slowly awhile in our territory, it finally leaps 

 madly from rock to rock forming for eighteen miles' above 

 Perrysburgh one of the best, if not the very best' mill stream, 

 in the state. At the latter town, it finds itself on a' level 

 with lake Erie, and is at rest. The lake Vessels will ascend it 

 to Perrysbugh. The Maumee, is one hundred miles, in length, 

 and for the first fifty miles from its mouth upwards, it is sev- 

 enty rods wide. It is one of the largest rivers in the state. 

 Its banks are high, and begin to be very well cultivated. 

 Along its borders, are fine bottom lands and its waters are stor- 

 ed with fine fishes from the lake. 



The state of Ohio, is about to make a canal along it, from its 

 mouth upwards, sixty feet wide, six feet deep, with a double 

 set of locks, so as to admit lake vessels to navigate it to Fort 

 Wayne. At no distant day, the Maumee valley will by thickly 

 settled, and well improved; and, this canal will be studded 

 with flourishing villages, towns and cities. 



SANDUSKY 



River, rises in the western part of Richland county, on the 

 same summit level, with the head waters of the Muskingum 

 river, and turning westwardly, crosses Crawford, Senccn, San- 



