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accessible from one side, through a forest and hollow between 
rocks. From the top of the mountain the town seems to lay 
below your feet, and is surrounded with fenced fields ; this point 
being one of the highest in this hilly country, the prospect would 
be very handsome if the eye could perceive any thing but woods. 
Next morning some Swabian farmers came to see me; I was 
sitting at my writing-table when they entered; they sat down 
without taking off their hats, and conversed very sensibly ; I un¬ 
derstood from them that they were very much pleased with the 
country, and that they felt conscious of being honest and useful 
men. At eight o’clock we went into the mail stage, an uncom¬ 
fortable boxy in which we rode thirty-six miles to Zanesville, 
on a rough road with many causeways leading through a hilly 
region, so that we had to stop at least forty times. It was very 
warm and dusty during the day; the land was less fertile than 
what we had previously seen in the state of Ohio, containing 
more clay and sand ; we arrived in the district of the coal and 
salt mines, both of which articles are found in the vicinity of 
Zanesville. We passed between New Lancaster and Zanesville 
the insignificant places of Rush-hill, Somerset, Union town, and 
Jonathan’s creek; Rush-hill is in a pretty situation on Rush- 
creek, a strong rivulet which works several mills; it consists of 
about thirty houses, some of them of brick. Somerset, half way 
from New Lancaster to Zanesville, contains four hundred inhabi¬ 
tants, it is on an elevated situation and is the chief town of Perry 
county. Jonathan’s creek has given its name to the little village si¬ 
tuated on both of its shores; the true name of this creek is Maxahala; 
it is very convenient for mills. We met with two herds of beautiful 
cattle, which had been brought from Chillicothe, and were driving 
to the eastern seaports for sale; towards six o’clock we arrived 
in a well-cultivated district, our road led us through orchards and 
neat houses; finally we arrived at Putnam, a little place situ¬ 
ated on the right shore of the Muskingum, opposite Zanesville. 
We crossed the river by a covered wooden bridge, resting on five 
stone piers. The Muskingum is one of the most considerable 
rivers in the state of Ohio, it begins in the most northern part, 
runs in a southerly direction, waters several counties, and empties 
by a mouth twenty-five yards broad, into the Ohio at Marietta; it 
is navigablefrom Zanesville upwards; below, themill-damsprevent 
the navigation. On account of the new canal which is to unite 
the Ohio with Lake Erie, on which they were working, though 
slowly, for want of funds, the navigation on this river will cease. 
In Zanesville we took good lodgings at Hughes’ hotel; there 
must be a great number of travellers, as in the principal street 
we could count seven other taverns. Zanesville contains three 
thousand inhabitants: its streets are large and straight, a great 
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