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that, with its salt water, its iron ore, and above all, its stirring, 

 active, restless, enterprising population of seven thousand, in 

 number, Zanesville bids fair to become, at no distant day, one 

 of the largest manufacturing towns in the western states, con- 

 taining seventy thousand people. The clays in this vicinity, 

 equal any now used in England, France or Germany, for earth- 

 enware, and we should not De disappointed, if Zanesville should 

 be the very first town on this continent to firmly establish the 

 manufacture of the real Liverpool ware, on the banks of the 

 Muskingum river. The naturalist would find many things to 

 interest him here; and the best place, which we know, wherein, 

 to study our geology and mineralogy, is Zanesville. There is 

 an Athenaeum and a well endowed school here, and there is a 

 taste for science widely diff'used among the people of this vici- 

 nity. Freestone, limestone, and water lime, are here in abun- 

 dance, and finally, if Zanesville does not become, a great town, 

 for an inland one, we do not see the cause of such a failure. 



All the elements of prosperity are here, and the very people 

 to use them to advantage, arc already here, as a nucleus around 

 which, a great manufacturing town will grow up. 



Cleveland, has been often alluded to already, in this work, 

 and we connot easily forget so important a town. It is so, from 

 its position, from its natural advantages, and from its intelligent 

 active, wealthy and enterprising population. Taking both 

 sides of the river into view, Cleveland now contains, twelve 

 thousand people, but in 1825, it contained only six hundred. 

 It is delightfully situated on a high sandy bank of Lake Erie, 

 seventy feet above the lake, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga 

 river and on both sides of the Erie and Ohio canal. In the 

 summer season, while its port is crowded with its mercantile 

 marine, of lake vessels, steamers and canal boats, Cleveland 

 is a busy, bustling city. If we look off on the lake we see 

 many a sail, spread to the breeze, on this beautiful inland water. 



This town will soon run up to fifty thousand people, and for- 

 ever, continue to be, an important inland city. The people 

 here, have all the elements of prosperity, in or near the 

 town; freestone for building, liraestone,cedar and gypsum on 



