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Edith M, Southall 
Influences in early growth. Judging from conditions today, 
the region about North Bend would be the proper location for 
a large city, since it is near the mouth of the Great Miami, which 
drains such a large fertile region to the north. But the influence 
of this recent stream, in reference to the Ohio, is secondary to 
that of the old stream valley above referred to. Cincinnati lies 
in the valley of the Old Licking, where the Licking, from the Ken- 
tucky side, joins the Ohio, which is of much later origin in this 
part of its course. A very few miles up the river the Little Aliami 
empties into the Ohio. The valley of the Licking, and the turn- 
pikes in Kentucky, led settlers easily from the Kentucky regions, 
which were becoming thickly settled at that time, while large 
numbers came later from the east by way of the Ohio. 
Early Years of the Settlement 
Indian depredations. During the first few years of the settle- 
ment, no attempt was made to establish any industries. Fear 
of the Indians kept the settlers together, and their efforts were 
confined almost exclusively to agriculture. The Peace of Green- 
ville was concluded in 1794; fear of savage depredations thus being 
removed, industrial progress began. 
Ferry and packet line established. In 1792 a ferry was estab- 
lished opposite the Licking, and legal rates were fixed by Governor 
St. Clair. 4 In 1794^ a regular packet line was established to 
Pittsburg, while keels, flatboats and barges carried the farm prod- 
ucts of the rich Miami country down the river to New Orleans, 
and in turn brought supplies from New Orleans to Cincinnati. 
A good road led down from Newport to Lexington, the center 
of Kentucky’s rich farm region, and the farm products of Kentucky 
were brought to Newport, ferried over to Cincinnati, transferred 
to boats and carried down the Ohio to the Mississippi. 
Cincinnati’s Rapid Industrial Growth 
Population and manufacturing statistics. Though population 
figures are not a sure index of a city’s commercial standing, yet 
a very rapid increase in population is usually an indication of 
^ W. H. Venable, Cincinnati and Hamilton County, p. 65. 
^ Ohio Archeological and Historical Society Publications, vol. vi, 1900, p. 241. 
