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in-law invited us to his father’s house; we accepted his invitation 
and rode in Messrs. Leonard and Vethake’s company, towards 
evening,to the country-seat; our road led us through a beautiful and 
well cultivated valley, near a little Indian mound, and through a 
forest of beach, maple, chesnut and hickory trees; finally we rode 
through handsome fields, where here and there we saw groups of 
white thorn. The governor’s house is surrounded with Lombardy 
poplars ; it is constructed in the style of an Italian villa, of free 
stone, with stone steps on the exterior, is two stories high, and 
has two wings, having a court in front of the centre building, 
containing honeysuckles and roses: on one side of the house is a 
terrace with flowers and kitchen vegetables; this garden was ar¬ 
ranged by German gardeners who keep it in very good order: be¬ 
hind the house are large clover fields, and to the right the farm 
buildings. Governor Worthington occupies himself with the rais¬ 
ing of cattle, particularly sheep; he had a flock of one hundred 
and fifty merinos. I understood that they were numerous in the 
state of Ohio. Colonel King and his highly accomplished lady, 
came to meet us; the governor and his lady soon appeared: he 
has travelled a great deal, has been a long time in public offices, 
and was for several years a member of the United States’ senate; 
his eldest son was travelling in Europe, another son was in the 
military academy at West Point. He has ten children, on whom 
he expended a great deal for their education; the evening passed 
rapidly in instructive and interesting conversation, the hospitable 
governor insisted on our passing the night at his house; the house 
is very commodious, the furniture plain, but testifies the good 
taste and easy circumstances of the owner. I arose early next 
morning and took a walk in the governor’s garden, I ascended 
to a platform on the roof to take a view of the surrounding lands, 
but there is as yet nothing but woods covering the .greater part of 
the country. Fires, which were burning in some places, were 
proofs, that new settlers were clearing the woods; from this plat¬ 
form the governor can overlook the greater part of his property, 
containing twenty-five thousand acres of land; by this means he 
has the greater part of his workmen under his control; the ground 
consists of low hills, and it is only towards the east in the direction 
of Zanesville, that more considerable elevations are perceived. 
I took breakfast with the worthy governor and his family, and 
found here, as at Governor Morrow’s, that the father of the family, 
observed the laudable custom of making a prayer before sitting 
down. After breakfast we took leave of this respectable family, 
whose acquaintance I consider as one of the most interesting I 
made in the United States, and returned to town. Chillicothe con¬ 
tains from two to three thousand inhabitants, who subsist chiefly 
by farming, raising of cattle and retail commerce; they had also 
