284 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



Their roads in that part of Ohio are straight, and much labor 

 is expended on them by the people. 



The United States ought to make a road from Lower San- 

 dusky to Detroit- The one which they have pretended to 

 make is of little value. 



The Black Swajip, should we have another war with our old 

 enemy, in the first campaign, would tell congress what they had 

 neglected to do. During this period of peace, is the time to 

 make this road, and unless all former experience is lost on the 

 nation, appropriations will soon be made annually, to make 

 this road what it should be, a permanent, good, substantial 

 highway. The black swamp has already cost the nation a 

 million of dollars, besides many brave men who perished from 

 the sickness which they caught by wading through it. Pitts- 

 burgh and Greensburgh in Pennsylvania, and Petersburgh in 

 Virginia, will long remember those who thus perished and were 

 buried in this black swamp. Ohio lost in the same way, and 

 in the same swamp, not a few of her best soldiers. 



BRIDGES. 



Our best ones and the greatest number of them, are on the 

 national road. All of them are good, and some of them are 

 excellent. Across the Stillwater at Cambridge, the Muskin- 

 gum at Zanesville, and the Scioto at Columbus, there are 

 bridges which may vie with any others in the west. Across 

 the Scioto at Circleville and Chillicothe, are excellent bridges, 

 which the people in their vicinity have erected. At Dayton 

 and Hamilton are good bridges across the Great Miami. The 

 best bridged stream in the state is the Great Beaver in New 

 Connecticut. We need in the state, ten thousand additional 

 bridges. We need wider and better roads and canals; such 

 as will accommodate ten times as many travelers as now pass 

 along them. 



