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built in a handsome style. The form in which 

 the town is built, adds much to its elegance, and 

 the gentle rising of the city ground back from 

 the Ohio, affords an extended and delightful 

 prospect of the rivers and distant hills, which is 

 greatly heightened and enlivened by the ship- 

 ping and various kinds of water craft floating 

 on the streams. A part of the town is built 

 on the opposite side of the Muskingum, and the 

 houses not inferior in elegance to those on the 

 city ground. 



Marietta is the seat of justice for the county 

 of Washington, and has a court-house and jail. 

 There are two religious societies ; the largest 

 is Congregational, who have erected a hand- 

 some meeting-house. It has an academy, 

 which is also improved as a house for public 

 worship. 



Within the area of the ground laid out for a 

 city, at the northeast part of it, are a number of 

 •he ancient works so frequently found- in the 

 western country. They consist principally of 

 two large oblong squares and an elevated 

 mound, in the form of a cone. The largest 

 square contains forty acres, and the smallest 

 twenty, They are enclosed by walls or ram- 

 parts of earth, without any ditches, from six 

 to ten feet in height, and about thirty feet in 

 breadth at the base, with twelve openings, or 

 gate-ways, at regular distances from each other. 

 Piom one of the angles of the largest square 



