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THE CINCINNATI AND WHITE WATER CANAL. 



It is estimated to cost, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. 

 Its length is twenty five miles, and connects with the White 

 water canal of Indiana at the state line, half a mile south of 

 the town of Harrison. It passes down the east side of the White 

 water river to near its mouth, thence crossing the Miami river 

 a little above the town of Cleves, it enters the Ohio valley 

 through a deep cut at NorthBend of one fourth of a mile in 

 length, thence along the the bank of the Ohio river, to Cin- 

 cinnati. 



ROADS. 



The Cumberland road, extending west from Bridgeport, oppos- 

 ite Wheeling, is making by the United States. It will, when 

 completed, reach all the capitals of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, and 

 strike the Mississippi river, either at Alton, or, opposite St. 

 Louis, in Missouri. This road is completed from Bridgeport to 

 fourteen miles west of Columbus. The labor now doing on it, 

 is performing immediately east of Springfield. It ought to be 

 finished, in this state, to Indiana line, within three years, or 

 by 1840. As soon as any portion of it is finished, the state 

 receives it from the general government, and places gates on 

 it, and collects tolls, wherewith to keep it in repair. 



RAIL ROADS. 



The first rail road made in this state, was finished in 1836 

 by the people of Toledo, a town some two years old then, situ- 

 ated near the mouth of Maumee bay. The road extends west- 

 wardly into Michigan and is some thirty miles in length. 

 There is a rail road, about to be made from Cincinnati, to 

 Springfield. This road follows the Ohio river up to the Little 

 Miami river, and there turns northwardly up its valley, toXe* 

 nia, and passing the Yellow Springs, reaches Springfield. Its 

 length must be about ninety miles. The state will own one 

 half of the road, individuals and the city of Cincinnati, the 



