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manufactures. It has, somehow, been badly treated: it has no 

 bank, and the travel was taken from it, by locating the United 

 States road, a few miles south of it. However, justice must be 

 done to it soon, by the state, and by itself, as the people here 

 Want neither industry, capital nor energy. In this state we 

 have no better citizens than are here, and the iron ore and 

 coal, not far off, will not be overlooked by the people. The 

 county is well watered, the land is excellent, and the farmers 

 wealthy. 



Mount Vernon is a delightful town, on Vernon river^ and 

 it is the shire town of Knox county. Here the land is excel- 

 lent, the farmers are rich, and their farms are well cultivated. 

 Mount Vernon is in the exact centre of the state. Kenyon 

 college is at Gambler, five miles from Mount Vernon. This 

 town will one day become a very important one, when a canal 

 shall be made along Vernon river to the Ohio canal. That 

 very improvement, alone, would make this town, a place of 

 considerable business, with a population of seven thousand 

 people. 



Steubenville. — The shire town of Jefferson county, stands 

 on the Ohio river, some thirty eight miles in a direct line, 

 from Pittsburgh. Its population is only about three thous- 

 and, but they are increasing. It has always been a manufac- 

 turing town, and always will be one. The people here have 

 been badly represented, quite too often, in the legislature. 

 They have often opposed the policy of the state, like Belmont 

 county, and they now feel the direful effects of such represen- 

 tation. 



The same may be said of New Lisbon, but that town is now, ra- 

 pidly rising, beside its canal, now progressing to a completion. 



Warren has always voted wisely, for internal improvements, 

 but some how, has not been well treated by the state ; but that 

 time is past, a canal is now making past Warren, which will 

 rise up into considerable importance, in the old county of Trum- 

 bull, so well settled and improved, by as good a population, as 

 we have in the state. 



Portage county contains three or four towns, along the Cuya- 



