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ugh fmall, was very richly or- 
Their hoftile difpofition pre- 
vented any intercourfe. Hawkefworth’s Voyages, vol. ii 
p- 273, &c. 
OHETUNA, a harbour on the fouth-eaft coat of 
Ulietea. 
OHEVAHOU, an ifland in the South Pacific ocean. 
S. lat. 9° 42’. W. long. 139° 2!. 
UD, a mountain of Arabia, in the province of j 
Hedsjas, where Mahomet was defended by the Koreith; 
8 miles N. of Medina. 
OHIO, one of the United States of America, admitted 
2 
Int 04, this 
18 counties, as in the following table : 
ate was divided into 
a oi Males 
of 21 Years and 
Counties. Patan upwards, ac- Chief Towns. 
cording: to the 
Cenfus of 1803. 
Trumbull 1799 YIII Warren 
Columbiana 803 542 
Jefferfon 1533 Steubenville 
Bellmont 1803 1030 
Wahhington 1788 1246 Marietta 
allia ' 1803 307 Galliopolis 
Scioto 1803 249 Alexandria 
dams g06 Maffefburg 
Clermont 755 Wilhamfburgh 
Hamilton 1799 1700 Cincinnati 
Mufkingum 1803 T 
Fairfield 105 New-Lancafter 
ofs 1982 Chilicothe 
Franklin 240 Franklington 
arren 854 
Greene 446 
But 836 
Montgomery 526 
159314 
+ Included in Wathington county. 
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The whole number of inhabitants in Ohio in 1803, was 
eftimated at about 76,000, exclufively of feveral hundreds 
of people of colour, and the conftant influx of emigrants 
amounting yearly to about 12,000. 
: ams, Fairfield, 
Rofs, and Scioto. 3. Bellmont, Colum- 
biana, Jefferfon, Trumbull, and Wafhington 
; nd northern parts of 
ftate it may deferve the latter appellation, and it is too rough 
to admit of much cultivation; and in other parts the inun- 
dation and fettlement of the waters render it wafte land. 
No part of the federal territory unites, as it is faid, more ad- 
vantages, with regard to health, fertility, variety of produc- 
tions, and foreign intercourfe, than that traét which ftretches 
rom the Mufkingum to the Scioto and the Great Miami 
vers. ‘The country on the Ohio is every where pleafant, 
with large level {pots of rich land, and remarkably healthy. 
he bottom and fides of the river are ftony from Pittfburg 
down to the low country, a diftance of about 800 miles. 
The ftrata of ftone are horizontally difpofed, and confifts 
principally of either free-ftone or lime-ftone. Although the 
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+ 
a} 
efe 
may be cultivated with little labour. In many of thefe 
bottoms a man may clear an acre a day, fit for planting with 
Indian corn; as here is no underwood, and the trees, which 
large, are not thickly fet. This country 
8 
u other articles, fuch as 
hard-ware, glafs, whifkey, apples, cider, 
fions, are carried down the river to Ni 
Tron, 
emp, cordage, 
and falted provi- 
ew Orleans, where 
copper are found 
river. 
n 
called thunder-ftones ; thefe are black, lefs ponderous than 
coal, and yet capable of giving fire when ftruck againtt fteel. 
Their compofition is irregularly foliaceous ; in the fire they 
yield a blue fulphurous flame, and calcine into a purple 
hickory, cherry, buck-wood, or horfe chefnut, honey- 
locuft, elm, cucumber-tree, lynn-tree, gum-tree, iron wood, 
afh, 
