96 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



lieve their suffering, dying young ones, but behold! no one is 

 near them, but the innocent, the plain, the honest and candid 

 Mr. Thrush, who retires as if laughing in his sleeve, at the 

 trick which he has played off upon the parents. 



In the evening, after the birds have reared their young ones, 

 and when all join to raise their several hymns of praise, the 

 thrush seats himself in this woodland orchestra, and begins by 

 singing in succession, the notes and songs of all the birds 

 around him, beating all of them, using their own notes, and 

 singing their own songs. 



Having thus, as he supposes, carried off the prize in this 

 musical contest, he prepares for his Jlnale, by taking his seat 

 on the topmost end of the highest bough of the loftiest tree, 

 standing on the highest ground in all the grove, and then he 

 commences to sing his own clear notes, and his own most 

 delightful song. At times, his wings are expanded, his neck 

 is extended, every feather on his whole body, quivers with 

 his exertion of every limb, and his whole soul is exerted to its 

 utmost power, to produce the most perfect melody that was 

 ever heard in the woods of Ohio. He continues his delightful 

 music, until after all the other birds are silent and still, so 

 that his own song is the only one, then heard in all the grove, 

 far and wide, all around him, for a long time. 



Thus we see, that he can act a principal part in the beggar's 

 opera, or in the comedy of errors. He can play Falstaff in 

 the Merry Wives of Windsor, the Ghost in Hamlet, or, Mac- 

 beth in tragedy, and Avell deserves to be called William 

 Shakspeare among the birds, not of Stratford upon the Avon, 

 but of CiiiLLicoTHE upon the Scioto. 



MEDICAL TOPOGRAPHY, DISEASES, CLIMATE, TORNADOES 

 AND THE WINTERS IN THIS STATE. 



In the Autumn of 1806, a fever of the remittent type, made 

 its appearance, extending from the Ohio river, on the south, to 

 Lake Erie on the north. 



Its symptoms were chills in the forenoon, between ten and 



