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other half. This road will, no doubt, be extended to lake Erie, 

 at Sandusky city, within a few short years. 



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

 the Ohio river. There are many charters for other rail roads, 

 which will never be made. So we fear, we might say of sev- 

 eral turnpikes, for want of enterprise and public spirit where 

 they should be made by the people in their vicinity. 



TURNPIKE ROADS. 



The first one made in this state, extended from Warren io 

 Trumbull county to lake Erie. 



There is a clay turnpike from Ohio City, in the direction of 

 Columbus, but, except in dry weather, we cannot praise it 

 greatly. 



The same remarks apply to the road from Columbus to San- 

 dusky city, one hundred and six miles in length. There is a 

 charter for a turnpike, from Cincinnati to Zanesville, through 

 Chillicothe, Lancaster, &c. There is a sort of a road, from 

 Sandusky to Perrysburgh. 



There is a turnpike in progress, actually making from Cincin- 

 nati to Springfield, through Lebanon, Waynesville and Xenia. 

 So far as it is finished it is an excellent road. 



There is another road from Cincinnati, along the Ohio river 

 and up the Little Miami, twenty odd miles, completed in- a 

 substantial manner. 



There are two other excellent roads from Cincinnati, extend- 

 ing northwardly into the interior. 



All the canals, rail roads and turnpikes actually begun, will 

 be finished by 1843. And these canals and roads will have 

 cost fifteen millions of dollars. We shall then have eight hun- 

 dred miles of canals, and one thousand miles of rail roads, and 

 turnpikes, including the Cumberland road. Tolls will be col- 

 lected on all of them. On the Cumberland road, sufficient 

 tolls will be paid to keep it in repair. Some of the roads, will 

 do more than that, but, the capital expended on roads, gener- 

 ally, may be considered as gone forever. Few roads will 



