OHIO. 
ath, afpin, saree crab-apple tree, papaw or cuftard apple, 
a variet a of plum trees, nine bark-{pice, and leather wood 
bufhes Both the high He low lands produce peed quan- 
Mufcovado. Springs of excellent tae boun very 
part of the territory ; and {mall as well as res ftreams fo 
s and other purpofes are aes phe but as i is 
nd 
rye, Indian corn, hemp, 
yield all the culinary plants i in pet aio 
; Melons ae toa 
ze, and rip en into delicioufnels. 
Over the furface 
The winter commences at the 
folflice and lafts about two months. e {now does not lie 
upon the ground for more than three days. It feldom freezes 
for more than five or fix days ees at whicli time the 
furface of the ftagnant waters and of the {maller ftreams is 
congealed. e winds in winter are — vasabe 3 an : 
fevereft cold eats the N.W. wind. ary are ma 
fine days, a pure vane oe and ne fancthine, with foutherly 
and fouth-wefterly wi e {pring i is attended with rains 
dy weather wit th outh winds t 
| the feafon is in its flowery prim During 
er a heats increafe, tempered at sas ey refehing 
are fre fhow 
ingly mild and agreeable. 
cee 
mnal equinox the rains begin, with 
‘E. round to the N.W he falu- 
y of the climate is equal to that of any part of the 
United States; though on fome of the low and wet grounds 
fever and ague are prevalent. The diftance of 100 miles 
N. . makes a great difference in the temperature of the 
air. Near the river Sandufky the cold is much more dover 
with a greater quantity of fnow, than on the Mufkingum 
and on the Scioto {now hardly ever remains on the ground. 
The weather alfo varies confiderably on the E. and W. fide 
of the Allegha All ftorms of anata and 
lightning rife either with S.W. N. inds; but 
in a heal a the N.W. wind brings ier and clear 
ather. 
"The exports from this country confift of flour, corn, 
hemp, flax, cotton, beef, pork, fmoked hams, venifon, 
» &c. raw and 
Ship building has lately com- 
ae and is likely to increafe with advantage to the coune 
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low grounds that abou re Paks geefe, ducks, 
{wans, teal, pheafants, partridges, &c. w ithin a few years 
paft very plentiful ; but on the sai of fettlers, buffa- 
re difappear. Geefe d fwans are now fel illed ; 
ng the — antiquities iy this country we may 
mention its forts, whic of an oblong form, 
of earth 
fo peedaes relembling the barrows of other countries 1 
Bar which have been found to contain a chalky 
fabfance, fuppofed to be bones and of the human kind. 
Other works have a difeovered go miles from Marietta, 
on one of the weftern branches of the Mufkingum, extending 
near two miles, the ramparts of which are now in fome 
places more than 18 feet in perpendicular height. ‘Thefe 
elevated mounds, {quares, and forts, refemble thofe of 
Mexico, and it has been fuggefted that they have the fame 
original ; and they have been afcribed to a people, the moft 
ancient of which there is any account in that part of the 
world, called by Clavigero, in his « Hiftory of Mexico,” 
oltecas. He defcribes thefe people as celebrated for their 
Farias civilization and fkill in aftronomy an 
Thefe people are {aid to have | d fr 
country, and to have commenced an ke eer about the 
middle of the fixth century. Inthe courfe of their emi- 
gration they itaid for different nels of time in various 
tages of their j journey 5 in _fome places fale houfes he 
direGting their all 
fact of fuch an emigration from a northern region of thefe 
brave and warlike people, at an early see: anneal it is 
not poffible accurately to afcertain the dates y event, 
cannot be doubted: and that they eer the fortfcation 
and mounds that are ee mentioned, as they advanc 
Dir r progrefs, feems not improbable. “Te merits cooler: 
tion alfo, that the cae conftruction, orm, a eneral 
contents of the Afiatic tumuli and the ancient American 
ethod of m marchi ng i 
which there is a refemblance between the ancient Americans 
and the Tartar tribes of Afia. 
Other curiofities of this country, are the caves of arti- 
ficial conftru€tion found oa the bank of the Ohio: in one of 
which, called by the Indians ‘ the habitation of the great 
fpirit,”’ are found infer sl ara names of perfons, dates, &c. 
s of this country we might alfo 
h are immenfe plains of dif. 
ferent forts, occafioned either by the exficcation of lakes or 
vait morafies, or by the abforption of the rains that fall upon 
them, and which — the vat ** Steppes’’ in the upper 
par 
