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Commerce. The external trade of the state passes through the channel of the Ohio river, and by the Mississippi to New Orleans, with the exception of a small portion of the northern parts which finds a market at Lake Erie. * The exports consist of flour, pork, bacon, and lard, whisky, peach brandy, beer, and porter, pot and pearl ashes, cheese, soap, and candles, hemp and spun yarn, boards of walnut, cherry and blue ash, furs from the waters of the Great Miami, Wabash, and Maumee.

The imports consist of goods from the East Indies, Europe, and New England, and manufactures of the middle states, which are transported 300 miles across the mountains from Philadelphia and Baltimore. From Louisiana are imported the commercial productions of that country, sugar and molasses, cotton, rice, and salted hides. From the Missouri territory lead, peltry, and skins; from Tennessee and Kentucky, cotton, tobacco, saltpetre, and marble; from Pennsylvania and Virginia, iron in the bar, rolled or cast form, nails, millstones, glass-ware. †

In the new settlements on the Ohio river there are vessels with cabins fitted up like a shop, and furnished with goods of all kinds, which are given in exchange for the produce of the plantations. Their arrival is announced by the sound of a horn, or conch shell. -Sutcliff's Travels, p. 91.

The nature and amount of the surplus productions of the western country bordering on the Ohio may be estimated

Banks and Companies.-At Cincinnati the " Miami Exporting Company " was incorporated in 1803, for

from the following statement, copied from the "Pittsburgh Navigator."

Commerce of the Ohio river, from the 24th of November 1810, to the 24th of January 1811, a period of two months.

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forty years; capital 450,000; dividends between 10 and 15 per cent. for several years past. The "Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank," incorporated in 1813, for five years, capital 200,000; dividends from 8 to 14 per cent. Bank of Cincinnati not yet chartered, the shares 50 dollars, of which 8800 were sold in 1817 to 345 persons; dividends from 5 to 8 per cent. The Owl Creek Bank of Mount Vernon commenced its operations on the 5th of October 1816, with a nominal capital of 250,000 dollars, and power to increase it to double this amount. At Dayton, on the east bank of the Great Miami river, there is a bank called the "Dayton Manufacturing Company," with a capital of 100,000 dollars; and at Lebanon, in Warren county, there is a bank called the "Lebanon Miami Banking Company," with a capital of 250,000 dollars.

Bridges.-The legislature has authorized the erection of a toll-bridge over Milk Creek, near its confluence with the Ohio. But the steam ferry-boats will probably be more economical than any bridge across

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All these articles passed the falls of the Ohio in keel and flat

bottomed boats, 211 in number.

this river.

About eight miles from Canton, and one from Kendal, there is a toll-bridge across the Tuscarawa river 612 feet in length, supported by stone piers twenty feet in height. A mile east from Canton there is another across the Nimishillon creek 650 feet in length, built on wooden piles.

Canals.-Between the Cayahoga river and the Tuscarawa, a branch of the Muskingum, it is proposed to form a canal, and 100,000 acres of land have been allotted for this purpose by a law of the United States. Another is projected between the sources of the Wabash and the St Mary, eight miles above Fort Wayne ; and an equal appropriation of land has been made by Congress for this purpose; and a similar provision has been made for a third canal between the Illinois and the Chicago, or southern river of lake Michigan.

Roads.-Three per cent. of the nett proceeds of the United States' lands within the limits of the state of Ohio is allotted for the opening and repair of roads.

Books relating to this State.

1764. Historical Narrative of Colonel Bouguet's Expedition against the Indians of the Ohio in 1764.

A French Translation, with Additional Reflections on Military Officers, by Dumas, (C. G. E.) appeared at Amsterdam in 1769. Valuable Notes are added by the Translator. 1. On the Construction of Forts against the Indians. 2. An Account of the French Forts in Louisiana ceded to Great Britain. 3. List of Indian towns situated on or near the Ohio and its branches. 4. Names of different Indian nations which inhabit North America, with the number of warriors.

1790. Jacquemart' (Fr.) le Nouveau Mississippi, ou les dan.

forty years; capital 450,000; dividends between 10 and 15 per cent. for several years past. The "Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank," incorporated in 1813, for five years, capital 200,000; dividends from 8 to 14 per cent. ed, the shares 50 dollars, of which 8800 were sold in 1817 to 345 persons; dividends from 5 to 8 per cent. The Owl Creek Bank of Mount Vernon commenced its operations on the 5th of October 1816, with a nominal capital of 250,000 dollars, and power to increase it to double this amount. At Dayton, on the east bank of the Great Miami river, there is a bank called the "Dayton Manufacturing Company," with a capital of 100,000 dollars; and at Lebanon, in Warren county, there is a bank called the "Lebanon Miami Banking Company," with a capital of 250,000 dollars.

Bank of Cincinnati not yet charter

Bridges.-The legislature has authorized the erection of a toll-bridge over Milk Creek, near its confluence with the Ohio. But the steam ferry-boats will probably be more economical than any bridge across

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All these articles passed the falls of the Ohio in keel and flat

bottomed boats, 211 iu number.

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