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Our commerce is constantly increasing on this lake, and 

 will increase, annually, for ages yet to come. There is a 

 light house at Cleveland, and there ought to be, a marine 

 HOSPITAL, for disabled seamen. Proceeding eastwardly, the 

 distance of thirty miles, we arrive at the harbor of Fairport, 

 where there is a light house, and an increasing commerce. 

 Conneaut and Ashtabula are ports farther eastward. The 

 beforementioned, are the principal ports, in Ohio, on lake 

 Erie, upon which the United States, have wisely expended 

 money, to improve them. 



To the officers who have disbursed the public money, at these 

 ports, we are compelled to award our unqualified approba; 

 tion, for the science and skill, industry and enterprise, econ- 

 omy and good management, which they have displayed, in 

 all which they have done, in improving these harbors. We 

 regret that we cannot name them, we being ignorant on 

 that point, not knowing even one of them, — ;but their labor?, 

 praise them much. 



Lake Erie has its land and sea breezes, in summer, and 

 it presents the same boundless prospect to the eye and the 

 same solemn, sublime hum t^ the ear, in a calm, as the 

 ocean does. In a storm, lake Erie, to all the senses, pre- 

 sents the same aspect as the Atlantic, when swept by a gale 

 of wind. This inland sea is not rivalled by any other, in the 

 world, for beauty or usefulness. Its cities will soon rival the 

 Atlantic ones, in size, commerce and wealth. 



j THE FISHES, IN OUR RIVERS, PONDS AND LAKES, AND THE 



; DIFFERENT MODES OF TAKING THEM. 



When this country was first settled by us, fishes were found 

 in all our waters, in great abundance, but since so many steam 

 boats are employed on the Ohio river, and so many dams have 

 been erected on all our other rivers, these fishes have become 

 scarce and more difficult to take. The kinds usually caught, 

 are black, yellow and white perch; spotted perch, pike, trout, 

 bufialoe, several species of sucker, two species of sturgeon, 



