The Ohio Gazetteer: Or Topographical Dictionary; Containing a Description of the Several Counties, Towns ... in the State of Ohio ...J. Kilbourn, 1819 - 176 من الصفحات |
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18 miles 20 miles Ashtabula county bank Belmont county branch Butler county Chillicothe Cincinnati Circleville Clermont county Columbiana county Columbus considerable contains corner Coshocton coun county seat Cuyahoga Distance dollars dwelling houses east to west eastern eastwardly Fairfield county Fayette feet fertile flourishing post town fork Gallia county Geauga Guernsey county Harrison hilly Huron county Indian inhabitants Jackson lake Erie land Little Miami river Mad river Madison Marietta Meigs mercantile stores miles southerly mill stream Monroe mouth Muskingum county Muskingum river north to south northern northwardly Ohio river Perry Pickaway county Pike Portage county post office post town Preble principal waters Richland county rising road leading Ross county Salem Sandusky Scioto river seat of justice small town southeastwardly southern southwest southwestern Springfield square miles Stark county Steubenville thence town and seat township of Columbiana tract Trumbull county Tuscarawas county village Walnut Warren Washington Wayne county Zanesville
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الصفحة 59 - Connecticut embraced all lands contained between the 41st and 42d parallels of north latitude, and from Providence plantations on the east, to the Pacific ocean west, with the exception of New York and Pennsylvania colonies ; and, indeed, pretensions to these were not finally relinquished without considerable altercation. And after the United States became an independent nation, these interfering claims occasioned much collision of sentiment...
الصفحة 56 - In establishing the township and sectional corners, a post is first planted at the point of intersection ; then on the tree nearest the post, and standing within the section intended to be designated, is numbered with the marking iron, the range, township and number of the section, thus...
الصفحة 21 - Mounds, of various sizes, are found interspersed over almost the whole face of the country; but the forts, as they are called, are not so numerous. The mounds vary, in magnitude, vastly from each other, and somewhat so in shape; some are of a conical figure, ending on the top in a point, and as steep on the sides as the earth could be made to lie; others are of the same form, except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance [86] from its vertex, in a plane coincident...
الصفحة 24 - Although this circumstance is far from being conclusive on the subject; yet, the following fact almost infallibly proves this conjecture to be well founded. This is, that the interior wall is composed of clay, of which the inhabitants manufacture brick; whereas the exterior circle is composed of dirt and gravel of a similar quality with that which composes the neighboring ground.
الصفحة 22 - ... large in circumference. Many of these mounds are composed of earth of a different quality from that which is found in their immediate vicinity. This circumstance seems to indicate that the earth of wh'ch they were composed, was transported from some distance.
الصفحة 23 - ... nearly 100 acres. The number of their entrances or gateways, varies in different forts, from one to eight- or more, in proportion to the plan of construction and magnitude of the enclosure. The walls are mostly single; but, in a few instances, the forts have been found consisting of two walk, parallel, and adjacent to each other.
الصفحة 24 - The latter has seven avenues leading into it, exclusively of that which communicates with the circle ; there is one at every corner, and one on each side equidistant from the angular openings. These avenues are each 12 or 15 feet wide; and the walls on either hand, rise immediately to their usual height; which is above 20 feet.
الصفحة 19 - Scioto, Little Miami and Great Miami in the south. The Ohio river, and its steamboat navigation, will receive a separate description. — The interior and northern parts of Ohio are generally level, and, in some places, marshy. About one quarter of the eastern and south-eastern part, bordering on the Ohio river, is very hilly and broken. The hills are not, however, very large. Immediately on the borders of the Ohio there are numerous tracts of interval or meadow land of exuberant fertility. In the...
الصفحة 74 - XXII ranges of congress lands south. In the western borders of this tract is situated the town of Columbus. French grant, a tract of 24,000 acres of land, bordering upon the Ohio river, in the southeastern quarter of Scioto county. It was granted by congress, in March, 1795, to a number of French families, who lost their lands at Gallipolis, by invalid titles. Twelve hundred acres, additional, were afterwards granted, adjoining the above mentioned tract at its lower end, toward the mouth of Little...
الصفحة 17 - ... one of these departments, shall exercise any power properly belonging to either of the others, except as hereinafter expressly directed or permitted.