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Show ( 218 ) CIIAPTER VI. STATE 01? OHIO. This state is bounded on the west by the state of Inuiana, north by the Michigan territory and lake Eric, east by Pennsylv:mia and the Ohio river, anu SO~JthE-ast, and s~utl~ by the Obio river; having a frontier in common w1th lnd1ana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Kentucky. . . Population-extent.-The followi?g sta.tistical .table exhJbJts the present county divisions, anu populatiOn as It stood m 1810 and 1815. TOPOGRAPHICAL TABLE. Counties. Populatt"on. Population. Chief Towns and P op1tlat£on. ] 810. .1815. Adams 9,~134 10,41 Q West Union Ashtabula 3,~00 Jefferson Athens 2,79t 3,960 Athens Belmont ] 1,097 12 200 ' St. Clairsville Butler 1]' 150 ll 890 Hamilton Cuyahoga 1,459 2,500 Cleveland Champaign 6,303 1 0,4ti0 Urbanna Clermont 9,965 12,240 Williamsburgh Clinton 2,674 4,600 Wilmington Columbiana 10,878 13,600 New Lisbon Coshocton 3,000 Coshocton Dark 1,500 Greenville Delaware ~,000 5,000 Delaware Fairfield 4,361 13,660 New Lancaster Fayette 1,854 3,700 Washington Franklin 3,486 6,800 Franklin COLUMBUS Gallia 4,181 6,000 Gallipolis Geauga 2,917 3,000 Chardon Guernsey 3,051 4,800 Cambridge Green 5,870 8,000 Zenia Hamilton 15,258 18,700 CIKClNNATI Harrison 7,300 Cadiz Highland 5,790 7,300 Hillsborough Huron 1,500 Avery Jefferson 17,260 15,000 Steubenville Knox 2,149 3,000 Mount Vern on Licking 3,852 6,400 Newark Madison 1,603 2,100 New London Medina Mecca Miami 3,941 5,910 Troy Monroe ] ,200 Montgomery 7,722 13,700 Daytqn I EMlGRANT'S GUIDE. 219 Counties. Populat,ion. Population. Chief towns and population. 1810. 1815. Muskingum 1 0,0~)6 11,200 Zanesville Pickaway 7,124 9,260 Circleville Portage 2,995 6,000 Ravenna Preble 3,304 b,509 Eaton Richland 3,.goo Mansfield Ross 15,514 ] 8,000 Chillicothe Scioto 3,399 3,870 Portsmouth Stark 2,734 6 ,6 25 Canton Trumbull 8,67 L 10.000 Warren Tuscarawas 3,045 3,880 New Philadelphia Warren 9,925 1:2,000 Lebanon Washington 5,991 3,800 Marietta Wayne 7,100 Wooster. .230, 760 322,790 In the tables included in the geographical treatise published with this work, the population of the state of Ohio is calculated to amount to 346,000, in thP. present year, 1817. By the information contained in Kilbourn's Ohio Gazetteer, that state posses~eJ, in 1815, 322,790 inhabitants. Both the foregoing estimates fall short no doubt of the actual numbers at the epocba assumed. At the commencement of 1818 the inhabitants of the state of Ohio will most probably exceed 350,000. No state in the United States has been so accurately surveyed a.s that part of Ohio which has been hitherto settled, of course none exjsts the area of which is so perfectly known. The inhabited parts of the state · extends over an area of about 32,000 square miles, or 20,480,000 American acres. The nortb'west part of the state, ~mounting to within a small fraction of 8,000 square miles, . remains yet in posse s~ion of the Indian tribes ; a con iderable portion of this latter tract was however recently purchased from the sav·ages. The entire area of the state of Ohio is very little above 40,000 square miles, or 25,600,000 acres . . N alm·al geog,.aph?J ,-1--t"vers,-lakes ,-mountains, -hills ,-minerals. -Tbe rivers of the state of Ohio are, the Ohio, Great Miami, Little ~iami, Scioto, Hnckhocking, 1\'Iusk ingum, Cayahoga, Ashtabula, Sanuu~ky, Grand river, and M:1umee. *' . (!hio river, forms tbe limit of the state of O.hio, from Georgetown ~n Pennsyhrania, where tlJC line between the latter state and Virginia Intersects the Ohio, to the mouth of the Greflt Miami; a distance of 41 ~ t~iles, following the sinuosities of the tre am. From Georgetown to B1g Sandy river, the Ohio divides Vtrginia from the state of Ohio; * ~r .. Dt·ake has given to the Miami of the 1ak€'s the name of Maumee, without explammg why. It is painful and disgusting to read the a\\-kward descriptive n~mes so often given to American rivers; it was no doubt \i ith a view to obvhate this inelegant repetition that tl1isjudicious authol' adop e<.l tbis nnme, but ~ e.two souuds producf~d by Miami and Maumee are too similar tu ensure the esu·ed purpose effectuaJJy. |