] 06 HISTORY OP OHIO. 



and New Hampshire have in any one year. Our house build- 

 ers work out, on an average, nine months in the year, and 

 then work indoors, the other months ; or they travel south, and 

 there spend the winter, at their business, where the weather is 

 warmer and their wages higher. 



Immediately on the shore of lake Erie, the weather in win- 

 ter, is about three degrees colder than it is twenty miles south 

 of the ridge, where the lake rivers rise. And it is about ten 

 decrees colder at Cleveland than at Cincinnati, in winter. 

 Traveling from the lake southwardly, a very sensible differ- 

 ence is experienced on reaching the Scioto valley. So in the 

 heat of summer, in traveling to the lake, a coolness, highly 

 invigorating is felt by the traveler from our valley. Hence, 

 a tour to the lake, is advisable in summer, for those who suf- 

 fer from the heat of the south. 



Whether our atmosphere will continue to become more and 

 more dry, as our forests disappear before us, we cannot posi- 

 tively say, though we can see no reason why it should not be 

 the case. All the effects which the cultivation of the whole 

 valley of the Mississippi, will produce on our climate, cannot 

 be certainly foreseen, but we believe, that our seasons will be- 

 come warmer and drier. They will be more healthful in the 

 states west of us, warmer, drier and more equable in temper- 

 ature, and possibly, the soil will be less productive, in this 

 state, than at present. 



[To all human appearance, this great valley is intended by 

 its great, good, and wise Author, for a vast number of people 

 in which to live, move about, and act, and eventually, to con- 

 trol forever, the destinies of the most powerful nation on the 

 globe. After the next census, will be the time to fix on the 

 course which we and our posterity will forever pursue, in 

 governing ourselves and the eastern people. Thus far we 

 have been mere "hewers of wood, and drawers of water" for 

 the east. As the wheel of time revolves, we, who are now 

 at the bottom, shall be on its summit. We shall do ourselves 

 justice, in due time, and be, what we must be, an overwhelm- 

 ing majority of this nation.] 



