the roof, painted white with green lettices, which 

 is an ornament to the town, as is the small plain 

 belfry of the Presbyterian meeting house, a hand- 

 some brick building in main street ; in which 

 street also is a small brick Methodist meeting 

 house. These are the only places of public wor- 

 ship in the town, if I except the court house which 

 is used occasionally by the Episcopalians and 

 other sects. 



" The whole number of dwelling houses, as I 

 counted them, is two hundred and two, besides 

 four brick, and a few framed ones now building. 

 I reckoned only six taverns with signs, which 

 small proportion of houses of that description 

 speaks volumes in favour of the place. There 

 are fourteen stores, a post-office, and two printing- 

 offices, which each issues a Gazette weekly. 



41 The soil of the town being of a gravelly kind, 

 the streets are generally clean. The houses are 

 of free stone, brick or timber clapboarded, the 

 first of which is got in the neighbourhood, is of a 

 whitish brown colour, and excellent for building. 

 They are mostly very good, and are well painted. 

 On the whole, I think Chilicothe is not exceded in 

 beauty of plan, situation, or appearance, by any 

 town I have seen in the western part of the Uni- 

 ted States. 



" There is here a remarkable Indian monu- 

 ment in Mr. Winship's garden in the very heart 

 of the town. Like that at Grave Creek, it is round 

 •at the base, about seventy or eighty feet diame- 



