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Study the natural history of the western states, can find more, 

 to aid his researches, than in any other, one town, in the world. 

 Here are in this city, five hundred stores of goods of all sorts, 

 from every habitable country in the world. They contain the 

 productions of every clime, and of every art, tastefully display- 

 ed to attract attention. As a whole, perhaps, no other people, 

 in the world, are better clothed and fed than than these fifty 

 thousand citizens. None are more healthful or happier, and 

 none more intelligent, better informed, better bred, more kind, 

 benevolent and polite to strangers and to each other. 



Like all the western people, the Cincinnatians are a stirring 

 people. Through the day, they all dilligently attend to their 

 several callings, but when evening sets in, the streets are 

 thronored with pedestrians. The museum is opened and light- 

 ed up, into a blaze of brilliant light, and thronged with well 

 dressed people of both sexes and all ages, who sometimes, lis- 

 ten to a discourse on natural History, or some other entertain- 

 ing and useful subject. The churches are lighted up, and dis- 

 courses are there delivered, to full audiences. All the public 

 places are thronged to a late hour, when all retire to rest, and 

 all is silence, until morning, then all is in motion again through 

 the day. 



There is a city police, who arrest criminals, and there are 

 courts and juries here who punish crimes, speedily and justly. 

 But, mercy is often mingled with justice, where circumstances 

 seem to call for it. Of their courts and juries, we are com- 

 pelled to speak well, because they richly deserve praise. 



The professional men, the lawyers, physicians and clergymen 

 are learned, wise and good. 



The Ohio river here, is a beautiful sheet of water, in front 

 of the city, on whose surface, the large steamers move, or lie 

 at the landing, thirty at once, sometimes. The Dayton canal 

 here enters the Ohio river by several locks, creating an excel- 

 lent water power, and another canal extending from the inte- 

 rior of Indiana will soon be completed to this point. 



The city, standing, as it does, on a high bank of diluvial sand 

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