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From the great Hockhocking, or the Ohio, to 

 Galliopolis, and from thence*to the mouth of the 

 Scioto river, the land is hilly, clothed with an 

 heavy growth of excellent wood and useful tim- 

 ber, but interspersed with rich bottoms and in-* 

 » tervals. Receding from the Ohio the hills and 

 ridges diminish, until the land becomes sufficiently 

 level for all the purposes of culture. Where set- 

 tlements have been made in this hilly land, the 

 farms are very productive, and it is considered 

 as the best land in the State for orcharding. 



On Shade river, ten or twelve miles below the 

 Great Hockhocking, handsome, flourishing settle- 

 ments have commenced. Opposite the mouth of 

 the great Kanhawa is Fairhaven, a small, but 

 beautiful village, most delightfully situated. 



Three miles below is Golliopolis situated on the 

 high bank of the Ohio. It was beganjn the year 

 1792, and was settled by about five hundred 

 French people, emigrants directly from France, 

 who erected about an hundred houses. 



These people, wholly unacquainted with clear- 

 ing up forests of heavy timber, after forming- 

 handsome gardens, and planting vineyards and 

 orchards, became discouraged. Finding them- 

 selves in hazard by the Indian war, they began to 

 desert the town. Some went down the river 

 about twenty-five miles and settled on donation 

 lands given them by .Congress, opposite little 

 Sandy creek, but many of them w r ent down the 

 Mississippi to Louisiana. The town has since 

 been on the decline. It is the seat of jus&ce for 



