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Show 264 EMIGI\ANT'S GUID;E. [i r city The country near Green .. twenty-six miles from the l .or~~ There is nothing very l'emarka-burg is fe_rt~le a~d well c~ tJ;:dfn~ry seats of justice in the respective ble to di!hngUish from t e 1 r n is about 800. ,. counties adj.acent. lts presen~efnop~h: :ost eastern town ~f any co~- Somerset IS remarkable, ~s . g d except Hamilton m the Oh1o sequence in West Penf~y ~.am~, raSomerset county' and stands near valley. It is the seat o JUS IC~ o~ hioo-heny and Conemaugh rivers, the head streams of both the Th' g t :n stands upon the south road but up?n those of the latter. d ~on~ains about 100 dwelling·hous~s, from Pittsburg to Bedfordd a~bout 500 inhabitants. The mountam many of them el~gant, a~ .t t d is the abode of health, and pure, valley in which tlHs. town IS Sl ua e ' . though often keen a1r. . . for Armstrong county, Pennsylvania,. J( ittaning, the seat of JUStlce t .. o- villao-e upon the left bank of i~ a small, out an agreeable and .,bn~noland ~o~theast from Pittsburg. the Aleghany river' about 35 mi ~s yigrants from not standing upm:t This town is of less consequence o em d ' f h :my o t Jc:: from the eastwar • cl F h t . e grea roa - . b t the Aleo-hany river an rene . Prankrin occupies the pomt e.teen ·ron a'::J place of great conse· cqrueeenkc,e a:n dit hoaos gnhot t toy ebt ep, rofgrorems seo ds ~~~l,to 'what mio•h t have been ex· pee ted from its local ad~~nt;gesfor Crawford county, stands upon the M eadv£lle, the seat o JUS JC~ • thriving commercial town, sur-left bank of French creek, a~t' ~~ ~ and fertile country. The in· rouuded bY, a rich, well t~s ~~~ ~~ubt contributed to retard the ad~ crease of thIS lat~er t:~d:ille now coatains seven ?r eight hundretA vance of Franklm. e d f . Pittsburo- to Ene. inhabitants. I~ is upon the roa is r~~ oint ~f contact between the JJ' aterford, m Ene c?unty' b t . nd that of the valley of commerce of the Canadian lakfies, y n.ek, a road has been formed . b A ery ne turnp1 e f Ohio, by Pitts urg. [t d v l . h greatly facilitates the transport o from Erie to Water or ' w_uc 'I 'Vaterford is now in a flour· goods over this portage obfl.fitt.een ~~~:~ for goods, warehouses, and in i hing state has fine pu lC mns, . ~l d t fact assumes' the appcara,~ct o.f a "ct omtemde urcpioan laekpeo E• rie. The si.t e of Erie, formerly Presqu Js e,. JS Sl ua. . f Penns lvania but a pur· this town was not originwy •;.. thf hrn~~i~ town isynow' ~nd alwayi chase from the state of ew· . or c t e Its position is extreme.ly must remain, a place of great Imporl a:c . 'th the waters of the Ohw. well adapted to connect tb.e northern at esd\V .l to an immense amount It . t f • ·y where merCI)an 1se nt IS now a por o end ' . . d f h re to a ureat amou . is entered. Salt, alone, is annually[ ~sp~~~te~ St:tes bils fairer than Few tmvns of the western p!rts o t e this for lasting prosperity· . t d now contains about Erie is the ·cat of justice for Ene coun y, an 100 inhabitants. . . d on the north branch Hamilton, in the state of New-York, lS Situate . k in Cataraugui , fl the Aleghany ri\'cr, at the mouth of. O~ean ~~e~able attention, as I':Ounty. 'fhis new town has lately excite cons~a~ers of the Ohio and likely to form a point of contact between thH ~ ·u n the .t\,le~hanr M'UlSie ef the Susquehanna and Hudson. At ami 0 ) EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. 265 has a!sumed the appearance of a river, and is from thence to Pittsburg navigable, when the waters are but moderately swelled by rain. Several notices of this town I1ave appeared in the public prints, some of which may be seen in the Appendix. The Jist of roads will exhibit the relative distances from New-York to Pittsburg, by the route of Hamilton, by Philadelphia and by Albany. The relative position can be seen upon the attendant map. ClJarlestown, on the east bank of the Ohio river, at the mouth of Buffalo creek, and also on the east side of WlJeel ing, at the mouth of Wheeling creek, are flourishing towns, though confined to littJe more than one street aJong tbe banks of the river. The former of these two towns is the seat of justice for Brooke, the latter for OiJio county in Virginia; they are, particularly the latter place, of considerable commercial consequence. In Virginia, west of the mountains, no other towns of any particular consequence exists. In Pennsylvania, beside those already noticed, there are several others of minor impo,.tance, but of some con sequence to the neighbourhood where they are placed, as seats of mauufactures, stores, or of labour-saving machinery. Of this class are, on the .Monongahela, Fredericktown, on the west side near tlu: mouth of Ten-Mile creek; Williamsport on !be same side of the river, near the mouth of Pigeon creek; Jd'Keesport, on the east side, ~t the mouth ofthe Youghiogheny river. Upon the Youghiogheny, near the eOxhteionpsiyvlee ifraolnls-,w sotarknsd.s ConneJstown, a small place, but remarkable for tinScot mnoet iocteh. ers are scattered over the country, hut do not merit a dis· The region we have under review, is remarkable for its mineral ~ealth ; more especially the most useful, iron, salt, and coaL The Iarmer may be said to abound in a great variety of places, ale ng the entire range frorn tile border of New-York to Kentucky. In Virginia anJ Pennsylvania are a nuH:lber of lorges and furnaces, where an immense quantity of iron and castings are made. At Brownsville, many years p.'lst a steel mauufactory has been established, which has succeeded. Tl1c cast iron that supplies the manufactories of Pittsburg, is mostly brought from the waters of the Kiskiminitas. The best wrought iron from the J uniatta, not far from Bedford. Salt water bas been found upon the Conemaugh, and upon the Great Kenhawa, and in Wyth couuty, in Vioginia. It is now rendered probable, that by sinking wells to a sullicien t depth, that salt water moght be procured in almost any place along the western range of the l:hestnut ridge. All the salt wells yet formed from W yth to the Onondago, in New. York, are in this range. Salt works are now in operation on the Conemaugh and Great Kenhaw~, where great quantity of salt is made. lt is only those who have resoded twenty ·live or thirty years in this country, wbo can fuJJ.f appreciate the benefits arising from those salt works. } rom the end of the revolutionary war down to about J 800, when salt ":as first brought from Onondaga, in the •tate of New-York, salt was, 10 West Pennsylvania, live dollars per bushel, and if the tben value of money was !~ken into the account, ugar double the foregoin: 34 |
