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county, containing about fifty houses, and a 

 handsome stone court house. The face of the 

 country is hilly, but the soil is rich, especially on 

 the banks of the river, where the lands are very 

 fine. 



Further up the Miami is Lebanon, situated on 

 the bank, and the largest town on this river. It 

 contains about an hundred houses and is inhabited 

 by the people called Shaking Quakers. They 

 are emigrants from Kentucky, who were first 

 formed into a regular society by a Mr. Macna- 

 mara,"who still continues to be their head. They 

 have acquired much credit, as a frugal, industri- 

 ous people. 



About twenty-five miles above Lebanon, is 

 Xenia, situated on the bank of the Miami, and is 

 the seat of justice for the county of Greene. It 

 contains about fifty houses and a handsome court 

 house. The country around it is level and fer- 

 tile. Nine miles above this town is a very sin- 

 gular spring. It issues near the brow of an high, 

 flat topped hill, about a mile from the western 

 bank of the river. Water sufficient to carry an 

 over-shot mill issues from it, and the quantity has 

 never been known to increase or diminish. It 

 throws out a reddish sediment, which concretes 

 into a hard mass, forming a kind of bank, which 

 frequently alters the position of the spring. The 

 side of the hill is very steep, and the elevation of 

 *he spring from the base of the hill is about 

 eighty feet. The water is very cold and has a 



