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which will admit of cultivation, the laud is rich, 

 clothed with e^elJent timber, and the settlements 

 rapidly increasing. 



From the falls of Point to West Union, the 

 land is hilly, but the soil good and thickly settled. 

 The town is situated on the declivity of a hill, 

 consisting of about sixty houses, mostly of hewed 

 logs, a log court house and jail, and is the seat of 

 justice of the county of Adams. From West 

 Union to the Ohio, opposite Limestone, in Ken- 

 tucky, on the great road, the land is mostly hilly, 

 the soil rich and clothed with large timber, prin- 

 cipally oak and hickory. 



The lands north of Chilicothe and the State 

 road to Limestone, are, for about twenty miles, 

 moderately hilly, soil good, producing all the va- 

 riety of timber common to the State, excepting 

 pine. North of this tract commences the large 

 prairie, or natural meadow j which extends from 

 the Scioto to the Little Miami, a distance of sixty 

 miles, and nearly an hundred miles in a northern 

 direction. This meadow has a level appearance, 

 but is somewhat an inclined plain, which produces 

 a more rapid current in the streams of water than 

 would be expected. Several branches of the. 

 Miami and Scioto take their rise in this plain, 

 which is not sunk into swampy land, but most of 

 it sufficiently dry for culture. It is covered with 

 long coarse grass. Cattle feed eagerly on it, and 

 fatten as well as in good pastures. Large droves 

 are brought every spring from Kentucky, and 



