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the sale of Congress lands, two printing offices, 

 issuing weekly Gazettes, thirty mercantile stores, 

 and the various branches of mechanism are car- 

 ried on with spirit. Industry of every kind being 

 duly encouraged by the citizens, Cincinnati is 

 likely to become a considerable manufacturing 

 place. It is eighty-two miles north by east from 

 Frankfort, and about three hundred and eighty 

 by land south southwest from Pittsburgh, north 

 latitude thirty-nine degrees, five minutes, fifty- 

 four seconds, according to Mr. Ellicot, and west 

 longitude eighty-five degrees, forty-four minutes. 

 It is the principal town in what is called Symmes's 

 purchase, and is the seat of justice for what is 

 called Hamilton county, Ohio. It has a bank 

 issuing notes under the authority of the State, 

 called The Miami Exporting- company. The 

 healthiness and salubrity of the climate ; the level- 

 ness and luxuriance of the soil ; the purity and 

 excellence of the waters, added to the blessings 

 attendant on the judicious administration of mild 

 and equitable laws ; the great security in the land 

 titles ; all seem to centre in a favourable point of 

 expectation, that Cincinnati and the country 

 around it, must one day become rich and very 

 populous, equal perhaps, if not superior to any 

 other place of an interior in the United States. 

 The site of Fort Washington is near the centre 

 of the town. It was a principal frontier post it 

 is now laid out in town lots." A considerable 

 trade is carried on between Cincinnati and New 



