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the lake islands; iron ore and coal, in Tuscarawas county, on 

 the canal; pine forests, in Canada, across the lake ; water power 

 in abundance, in the river and in the canal; and a population 

 as stirring, enterprising and industrious as any in the world. 



Toledo, is near Lake Erie, on the Maumee river, and on 

 what soon will be, the splendid Maumee canal. It was nothing 

 three years since, but it now contains, three thousand people, 

 who have made a rail road, thirty miles in length, leading in 

 the direction of Lake Michigan at its southern end. This will 

 necessarily become, one of our largest inland towns. It stands 

 on the land for which we so long and so righteously con- 

 tended with Michigan, who had not even a shadow of a claim 

 to it, founded in justice, 



DAYTON. 



Of our other important towns, Dayton, at the mouth of the 

 M-id river, on the great Miami, claims a prominent and con- 

 spicuous place, in our volume. It now contains, about seven 

 thousand people, as good, as industrious and enterpiising as 

 any we have, in our state. The Dayton canal is now rapidly 

 progressing towards the lake, along the Maumee river, al- 

 though only one hundred miles of it are entirely finished, yet 

 the remainder soon will be completed. The soil, far and wide, 

 around Daytion, is as fertile as it can be, and there is a water 

 power, in the Mad river and in the canal, very valuable. Day- 

 ton must always be an important town. Manufactures flourish. 

 There are now, in Dayton, two cotton factories, three grist 

 mills, two saw mills, one silk mill, and all sorts of factories, 

 where water power is employed by ingenious mechanics. And 

 the country all around Dayton is full of mills and factories. 



Newark, in Licking county, on the Ohio and Erie canal, is 

 located in a densely settled and most fertile country. The 

 town itself contains now scarcely three thousand people, but 

 from its position, on the canal, surrounded by a fertile country 

 whose abundant produce, will always come here, Newark 

 must always be a very important point for inland trade and 



