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turnpike from Columbus to Sandusky city. The country all 

 around Marion is excellent and will be well improved within a 

 few years. 



Springfield, the shire town of Clark county, is romantical- 

 ly situated on the United States road, forty three miles west 

 of Columbus, and seventy two north westwardly from Cincin- 

 nati. It contains three thousand people and increases rapidly, 

 in all respects. 



Zanesville, is situated seventy six miles from the Ohio river, 

 following the meandering of the Muskingum river, on which 

 the town stands. If we include Putnam and West Zanesville in 

 our estimate, we may be allowed to say, that Zanesville now 

 contains, seven thousand people. The old congress granted 

 three sections of land, containing six hundred and forty 

 acres each, to Ebenezer Zane, for marking a road from Wheeling 

 across, what is now OhioState, by the way of Zanesville. Zane 

 marked the road, and for his pay, located one section, at Zanes- 

 ville, and laid out a town on it; another section was located near 

 "the standinor rock" and Lancaster was located on that section. 

 The other section was located opposite Chillicothe, on the 

 north side of the Scioto river. Humphrey Fullerton bought the 

 last named section of Zane, and his widow owns it now. The 

 town of Zanesville was laid out in 1799, and a few cabins built. 

 The mail had been carried along this " bridle path," about two 

 j'eare before that period, on horse back, and so continued to be 

 carried until about twenty years since. 



The natural, as well as artificial advantages of Zanesville? 

 are great. The Muskingum here creates a great water power 

 in its rapids. Fossil coal is here in abundance, and the iron 

 ore is equally so. Salt water, too, is in never failing 

 abundance, here or in the vicinity. The United States road 

 passes the Muskingum here, and manufactures of many kinds 

 here flourish greatly. 



The state has made a slack water navigation, from Zanesville 

 to Dresden, on the canal, and the same power is employing its 

 energies to complete this slackwater navigation to the Ohio 

 dver. This will be effected within four or five years. So 



