town is- very rich and level, covered with a large- 

 growth of timber, principally beach, sugar maple, 

 and ash. It produces excellent corn, rye, wheat, 

 hemp, flax, and all kinds of vegetables, and 

 will probably be highly favourable to fruit trees. 

 This town has settled with unusual rapidity. 



About sixteen miles northeast of Wo r thing-ton , 

 is the town of Bixby, a new, but very growing 

 settlement. It has much the same face of coun- 

 try and soil with that of Worthington. 



Upon the main branch of the Scioto, thirty-six 

 miles from Franklinton, and near the Indian 

 boundary line, is the town of Delaware, the seat 

 of justice for the county of that name. It is sit- 

 uated on the east bank of the river, and the land 

 level and good in every direction near it, but at 

 present thinly settled. 



The Scioto has no falls from the mouth to its 

 source, and glides with a gentle current, the great- 

 er part of the distance, over a sandy bottom. It 

 abounds with fish, mostly of the perch and sucker 

 kind, but cat-fish and pike are frequently caught. 

 Near Chilieothe, eighty barrels of the fish called 

 white perch were taken out of one deep place in 

 a day. 



The next considerable river, westward, which 

 runs from the northward into the Ohio, is the 

 Little Miami. Its banks are high, and has good 

 land on its borders, but has not a sufficient depth 

 of water for batteaux or boats. 



