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which were found in different mounds; it contains fragments of 
urns, arrow-heads of a large size, battle-axes made of flint- 
stone, and several human bones. Mr. Atwater likewise pos¬ 
sesses a very handsome collection of minerals, among which I 
found some interesting petrifactions of wood and plants, in parti¬ 
cular, the whortleberry plant. He offered to send to the uni¬ 
versity of Jena a collection of these petrifactions which are found 
near Zanesville, in this state, and for which he desired to obtain 
some German minerals. I must not omit to mention, that on the 
hill, outside of the circular fort, is a small wooden house nearly 
destroyed by storms, which commands a view of all the surround¬ 
ing country. It had been a house of ill fame, but being visited 
one night by a violent storm, it was abandoned by its inhabitants, 
to the great edification of the whole town. 
The 10th of May we rode nineteen miles, from Circleville to 
Chillicothe, formerly the capital of Ohio, situated on the right 
shore of the Sciota. Our way led us through a handsome and 
very well cultivated country; we saw fine fields, good dwelling- 
houses, orchards, and gardens; also several mills, turned by the 
water of the Sciota, and several other little creeks; some of these 
mills are at the same time fulling, flour, and saw-mills. 
The forests are chiefly of sugar maple, plane, and different 
kinds of nut trees: the road was tolerably good, the weather fine 
and warm; there is a covered wooden bridge which crosses the 
Sciota not far from Chillicothe; this bridge runs at least five hun¬ 
dred paces on piers, over a meadow which is sometimes inundated 
by the Sciota. We were comfortably lodged at Watson’s hotel, 
in Chillicothe. This town, like Philadelphia, lies between two 
rivers—the Sciota may be considered as the Delaware, and Paint 
creek rivulet takes place of the Schuylkill: the streets are large, 
at right angles, and without pavement, but have side-walks: great 
part of the houses are built of brick; there are several fine stores. 
Over the whole prosperity and liveliness appears to reign. Chil¬ 
licothe is the chief town of Ross county; it contains a court¬ 
house, built of freestone^ which, at the time it was the seat of 
the state government, was used for the senate house; the repre¬ 
sentatives met in the building now used for the court offices: 
there is also in this city a jail, and a market-house of brick. 
I received visits from several of the most distinguished inha¬ 
bitants, among them was a lawyer, Mr. Leonard, Dr. Vethake 
and Colonel King, son of the celebrated Rufus King, the Ameri¬ 
can minister to London, and son-in-law of the former governor 
of this state, Mr. Worthington: the latter lived at a country-seat 
two miles from Chillicothe, where he enjoyed his rents and the 
revenue of his considerable property, in the midst of an amia¬ 
ble family and an agreeable old age, free from cares. His son- 
