until a stop was put to it by the embargo. 

 Three rope walks, of nearly a thousand feet in 

 length, were erected, and the numerous me- 

 chanic branches, connected with the highly im- 

 portant employment of ship-building were 

 established. The Muskingum (which means, 

 in the Indian language EWs Eye) is of immense 

 importance to this town. The current is mod- 

 erate, rarely overflowing its banks, and may be 

 navigated with keel boats and other craft, dur- 

 ing the summer, as far as Zanesville, sixty miles 

 from Marietta. There are falls, but happily 

 formed for erecting waterworks of every de- 

 scription. Above the falls the river is again 

 navigable, not only in the mainstream, but 

 many of the numerous branches which mean- 

 der through a rich and level country in their 

 way to the river. The largest branch is the 

 Tuskarawa, which, with only a portage of seven 

 miles and an half, communicates with the 

 Cayahoga river, emptying into lake Erie. The 

 immense quantity of produce which this fertile 

 tract of country is capable of yielding for market, 

 and the easy transportation, cannot fail of ren- 

 dering Marietta a convenient place of sale or 

 deposit, from whence, by the ships built here, 

 at may be sent abroad. Materials for many 

 different manufactories may be procured here 

 with so much facility, and from the well known 

 spirit of industry and enterprize prevailing 

 among the people, ther»can be no doubt of thei? 



