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Orleans in keel boats, which return laden with 

 foreign goods. The passage of a boat of forty 

 tons down to New Orleans is computed at about 

 twenty-five, and its return to Cincinnati at about 

 sixty-five days. 



From Cincinnati to North Bend, on the Ohio, fs 

 sixteen miles ; and to the mouth of the Great 

 Miami, where the west boundary line of the State 

 meets the Ohio, is seven miles further. This 

 tract of land, which extends some distance from 

 the Ohio, is interval of the first quality ; well 

 settled, and in a high state of cultivation. Re- 

 ceding farther back from the Ohio, the land is 

 hilly, the soil indifferent, and thinly settled. The 

 road up the Great Miami leaves the Ohio at 

 Cincinnati, and comes to the Miami at Hamilton, 

 fourteen miles distant. Hamilton is the spot 

 where fort Hamilton formerly stood. It is situa- 

 ted on a large plain, well cultivated, but does not 

 contain more than ten or fifteen houses. It has 

 been a considerable village, but since Cincinnati 

 has so rapidly increased, Hamilton has been on 

 the decline. Thirty-five miles above Hamilton is 

 Franklin, on the Great Miami, containing about 

 sixty houses, built on one street. The lands in 

 its vicinity are level and rich, and have some of 

 the best cultivated farms in the State. Dayton is 

 thirty miles above Franklin ; the country more 

 level than below, and the lands well settled and 

 improved. The town is situated on the east 

 feraneh of the Great Miami at the mouth of Ma<J 



