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side-walks. Those streets which cross in the direction of the river, 
ascend and lead to the top of the hill, from which there is a view 
resembling a panorama. Here they were building a large Catho-* 
lie cathedral, which was commenced during the last year, and 
would probably be finished the next: it will be an ornament to 
the city. The Bishop, Mr. Fenwick, had been travelling for 
some years past in the Catholic countries of Europe, and had col¬ 
lected considerable contributions for the construction of this ca¬ 
thedral. The old cathedral, a modest wooden building, .stands 
yet in the rear of the new one; it is to be demolished when the 
former is finished. Cincinnati was settled in the year 1788, round 
an old fort, called Washington. The first settlers came from New 
England. The settlement did not succeed until 1794, when Gene¬ 
ral Wayne subdued the Indians. In 1815, it contained six thou¬ 
sand five hundred, in 1818, about nine thousand, and in 1826, 
about fifteen thousand* Cincinnati is the most important city 
of the western states. There are two Presbyterian, two Metho¬ 
dist, one Episcopal, one Baptist, one Swedenborg, and one Quaker 
church, and the Catholic cathedral. There are three markets, 
and several museums. We visited the principal one, called the 
Western Museum, but did not meet with any thing newt several 
Indian dresses, weapons, pipes, a human scalp, a dried human 
head from the South Sea Islands, the head of an Egyptian mum¬ 
my, manuscripts on papyrus from the sarcophagus of the mum¬ 
mies, several ancient and modern coins, the last consisting mostly 
of foreign gold coins, and some objects of natural history; a hand¬ 
some collection of birds, many of them European, several quad¬ 
rupeds, some minerals, as well as an indifferent collection of but¬ 
terflies. We also saw some oil paintings,* scarcely worth men¬ 
tioning, and finally some show-boxes. 
To my great regret, Colonel Wool left us this day, to continue 
his journey up the river, on board the Atlanta. Having seen on 
the map of the city of Cincinnati, the indication of some Indian 
mounds, I went in search of them, but was unsuccessful, for the 
very good reason that the hills had been demolished and in their 
place houses built. After this I called on Bishop Fenwick, but 
he was not at home. I here met with a clergyman who was a 
native of Hildesheim, his name was Rese, who was educated in the 
Propaganda in Rome. This man showed me the old and new 
cathedral. The former is built of wood, resembling a German 
village church; in its interior the splendid episcopal seat is par¬ 
ticularly distinguished. The altar had but few ornaments with 
* These had been presented to Bishop Fenwick by Cardinal Fesch, for his 
cathedral, and were only here, until they Could find their place in the Temple 
of God. 
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