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strange taste of iron and copper. It is in high 

 repute for its medicinal virtues, and is become a 

 place of considerable resort. 



The land further up the river is level and the 

 growth principally oak. Although the soil is 

 rather thin, it produces good wheat. Springfield 

 is about twenty miles above Zenia, consisting of 

 about fifty houses and the most of them well built. 

 It is situated on the forks of Mad river. From 

 Sringfield to Urbana is fourteen miles. The land 

 north of Springfield is much richer than that 

 which lies south of it. Here the growth varies 

 from oak to beach, ash, sugar-maple, black and 

 white walnut, and cherry. Urbana is the seat of 

 justice for the county of Champaign. It contains 

 about sixty houses and is rapidly increasing in 

 inhabitants. From this town to the Indian boun- 

 dary line is about sixty miles ; the land mostly 

 level, the growth large, inclining to beach, the 

 water good, and will admit of many excellent 

 mill seats. 



Returning back to the Ohio, the first town be- 

 low Columbia is Cincinnati, five miles distant-, 

 In the Ohio Navigator a concise and correct 

 description is given of this town. 



I* Cincinnati is handsomely situated on a first 

 and second bank of the Ohio, opposite Licking 

 river. It is a flourishing town, has a rich, level, 

 ancl well settled country around it. It contains 

 about four hundred dwellings, an elegant court 



use, jail, three market houses, a land office for 



