OHIO. 
parts of Ruffia and Siberia. There are alfo found open cleared 
alled ‘* Buffaloe beats,”’ be- 
quity we refer to Harris, ubi infra. Athens 
tri& of Middletown, is the ** Ohio Univerfity,”’ eftablifhed 
& paffed on the 12th of December, 1801. is 
eftablifhed, is endowed with 
46,000 acres of land, within 
‘the 
trultees. 
egiflative authority of this ftate is vefted in a general 
fe 
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affembly, compofed of a fenate to be chofen biennially, and 
ule 
promifes to give permanence to the treaty and fecurity to the 
future inhabitants. Morfe’sGeography. Harris’s Journal 
&c. Bofton, 1805. 
principal river in the flate above-defcribed, 
Kentucky 
the names, Alleghany and Ohio, h 
in different Indian languages; the former in the Delaware, 
and the latter in the Seneca, fignifies the ‘* fine, or fair 
river ;”’ and the whole ft 
with the Miffifippi, was fo 
nations. Hence it was firft 
elle Riviere.’ From Pittfbur 
for about 25 miles, then turns gradually to the W.S.W., and 
purfuing that courfe for about 500 miles, winds to the $.W. 
for nearly 160 miles, and at length empties itfelf into the 
Miffifippi in a S.E. dire&tion, about 1100 miles below Pitt{- 
burg, and nearly at the fame diftance above New Orleans, in 
N. lat. 36° 43’, or 37°0! 20". It is very crooked in its courfe, 
but its general direGtion is S. 60° At fort Pitt, it isa 
quarter of a mile wide ; 500 yards at the mouth of the Great 
Kanhaway ; 1200 yards at Louifville ; and at the rapids, 
half a mile, in fome few places below Louifville, but its general 
breadth dees not exceed 600 yards. In fome places its width 
is not 400, and in one place particularly, far below the ra- 
pids, it is lefs than 300. Its breadth in no place exceeds 
1200 yards, and at its junGtion with the Miflifippi, neither 
river is more than goo yards wide. Its length, as meafured 
according to its meanders by Capt. Hutchins, is as follows : 
From Fort Pitt 
Miles. 
To Log’s Town” - - 184 
Big Beaver Creek - 108 
Little dit - - 134 
Yellow Creek - 11: 
Two Creeks - - 218 
ong Reac 53% 
End Long Reach - 165 
ngum - 264 
Little Kanhaway - 12% 
Hockhocking - 16 
reat Kanhaway - 825 
Guyandot - - 43% 
Sandy Creek - - 144 
Scioto - - 48% 
Little Miami 12624 
Licking Creek - 8 
Great Mia - 263% 
Big Bones - - 324 
Kentucky - 44¢ 
ids - - 114 
Low Country - - 15st 
Buffalo River - 644 
aba . : 97% 
ig Cave - - 42% 
Shavanee River - 5ae 
Cherokee river - 13 
affac - - II 
Miffifippi - - 46 
1188 
30 feet to La Torte’s rapids 
Great Kanhaway ; and a fufficiency at all times for flat- 
bottomed boats and canoes, to Fort Pitt. i i 
of this river begin about the latter end of March, and fub- 
fide in July, although they frequently happen in other 
months. Befides the waters of many creeks, the Ohio 
receives in its courfe feveral rivers ; viz. the Great and Lit- 
tle Kanhaway, or Kenhawa, the Great and Little Guyandot, 
the Great and Little Sandy, Licking, Salt, Cumberland, 
and Tenneflee from the E. and S.; and the Mufkingum, the 
3 Hockhocking, 
