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tlement.. The 2nd division embraces the 
town of Cincimnati, the countries on 
the great and little Miami, of the Ohio, 
and the Mad river. Here isa vast quan- 
tity of rich land, and the prospects are 
great to the farmer; but most of the 
good lands near the rivers are taken up, 
and already demand a high price, and au- 
tumnal fevers are not rare, This country 1s 
filled principally by citizens from North 
Jersey. Sdly, The Chilicotha district. In 
this district is now the seat of govern- 
ment, situated about twenty miles nor- 
therly from the mouth of the river Scisto. 
Here there are extensive fine prairies; 
but they command a high price. The 
uplands are light, and rather poor, and 
the country, in the fall months, afilicted 
with bilious fever; besides, the Virginia 
military lands are in this district, ard 
their lines and titles are doubtful. The 
settlers are principally Virginians. 4th, 
The Marietta district, so called from 
Marietta, reputed for ship-building, heing 
its capital. It is situated near the conflu- 
ence of the Muskingum with the Ohio. 
On both these rivers are some-tracts of 
rich good land; but the country 1 gene- 
ral is hilly and broken, the soil hght and 
thin, and, on the whole, not very desira- 
ble. The principal inhabitants are from 
New England. 5th, The country com- 
monly called New Connecticut. This 
country is bounded east by Pennsylva- 
nia, south by the completion of latitude 
41°, west by a meridional line drawn by 
due north and south, 120 miles due west 
trom the west line of Pennsylvania, and 
north by Lake Erie: including all 1s- 
Jands in thelake which lie south of 42° 2’ 
north latitude.” 
In this district he determined to settle 
‘hinself and family,somewhere not very far 
from the lake, not because the country in | 
Pennsylvania, bordermg on lake Erie, 
possesses fewer natural advantages than 
that which he is about to describe, but 
that an unfortunate dispute exists as to ti- 
tle, so that no man knows how to purchase 
safely. In describing the country called 
New Connecticut, our author commences 
with the title, which is, he informs us, 
*< derived from a grant made by the state 
of Connecticut, on the 2nd day of Sep- 
tember, 1795. Connecticut being the 
original proprietor under the charter of 
King Charles Il. and this title is con- 
firmed by an Act of Congress, passed the 
28th of April 1800, under which act the 
president of the United States, in June 
Monrury Mac., No. 164, 
State of Ohio.—Adulteration of Beer. 
455 
1800, issued letters patent in support 
of the title, as may be seen in the otfice 
of secretary of state, and in the records 
of the state of Ohio. To this day there 
has never been a dispute as to title, not 
even as toa single dividing line; nor can 
there ever be. This is apparent from a 
prominent fact. The whole country has 
been divided into townships of five miles 
square, and their survey recorded ante- 
rior to the issuing the titles to the soul, so 
that a township-line can never be dis- 
puted. Again: the original proprietors, 1 
most instances, where settlements have 
not been made, now remain the owners 5 
and these proprietors have in one survey 
run out the townships into lots. A dis- 
pute of line or title is therefore impossi- 
ble.” 
Should time permit, I shall forward by 
the September mail, another letter, which 
will conclude my extracts from Dr. 
Tongue’s pamphlet, till when, 1 remain 
Sir, Your's, &c. 
Alexandria, R. DINMORE. 
August 24, 1807. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
H OBSERVE, in your last number, for 
November, p. 346, a very judicious, 
not to say facetious, entertaiming, and pa~ 
triotic, account of beer-brewing. I very 
much admire the writer’s sensible and 
well intended observations, particularly 
those which show, not only his intimate 
acquaintance with the honest and fair 
practice of brewing the genuine British. 
beverage with real malt and hops, but 
his decided aversion to the abommable 
practice of adulteration, chiefly within 
the last twenty or thirty years. I per- 
ceive, Sir, his account is to be continued 
in a future number of your useful Maga- 
“gine, and trust he will not fail, as he ap- 
pears well qualified, effectually to stigma- 
tize so vile and general a practice as that 
abominable adulteration. I was also 
vlad to observe a note, in the fifty-first 
part of the New Abridgement of the Phi- 
losophical Transactions (vol. xii. _p. 362) 
stating several particulars of the life of a 
nian, a Mr. Jackson, who, 1t seems, was 
the original and chief cause of sq base a 
practice, accompanied with just expres- 
sions of abhorrence at so atrocicus a 
crime against the public. 
Your’s &c. 
November 7, 
1807. 
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