68 Iron Ore. — Roscoe. 



was cast down the placid stream, in search of the coming barge, 

 when lo ! on the precise day, early in the morning, the boat reached 

 the landing at " Campus Martius," the name of the stockaded fort 

 at Marietta, with the General and all the party in safety. 



Iron Ore. — As the canal boat proceeded south, I observed nod- 

 jules and blocks of iron ore on the sides and surface of the hills, at 

 a much less elevation than at Zoar. Vegetation has made a striking 

 change since we descended into the lower portions of the valley. 

 The petals of the Cornus florida are fully expanded and beautifully 

 white ; while on the summit they are yet quite green, and just be- 

 ginning to unfold. The weather is very cool for this season of the 

 year, and the forest trees are late in opening their foliage. Towns and 

 villages are springing up so rapidly on the borders of the canal, that 

 the inhabitants are at a loss for names. To-day we passed one in 

 this awkward predicament, which goes by the epithet of " New- 

 comers-town." We crossed the Walhouding or White woman's 

 river, near its junction with the Tuscarawas. After uniting their 

 waters, the stream is called the Muskingum, or " Elk's-eye." The 

 canal crosses the Walhouding in a wooden trunk, supported by two 

 abutments and four pillars of masonry, faced with oval buttresses of 

 sandstone rock. The stones which compose these huge pillars are 

 very large, and rough dressed, projecting beyond the joints, giving 

 the appearance of vast strength, and resembling the mural face of a 

 natural cliff of sandstone rocks. It looks much better for this pur- 

 pose than a smooth dressed stone, and is very creditable to the taste 

 of the architect. This stream is about eighty yards wide, and has 

 its sources in the northern and central parts of the state, in a very 

 fertile region. Vernon river, once known by the euphonous name 

 of " Owl Creek," is one of its principal tributaries. Kenyon Col- 

 lege is situated on this beautiful stream. The Walhouding crosses 

 the great siliceous deposit, in the N. W. part of Coshocton County, 

 where we now are. I picked up several large fragments of flint and 

 hornstone, on the beach, at the foot of the aqueduct. This singular 

 and interesting deposit passes through the eastern portion of Holmes 

 County, and crosses the Tuscarawas River not far from New Phila- 

 delphia, beyond which, easterly, I have no correct knowledge of its 

 course. 



Roscoe. — Just below the aqueduct, is seated the little village of 

 Roscoe, on the west side of the Muskingum River. It is a village 

 oS some importance, and has several mills in operation. 



