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Show EMIGRANT'S GUIDE. 266 ' d "th the present standard of money. By the price when compare w• • ~ nd fwm the Great Kenhawa, int~oduction of. salt from c~~e~::rh~na three dollars per barrel. that necessary lS no~ oft~':l a . \ coal disputes with salt the pre- In point of public utthty,dmm,erall c.e of the latter fossil is a mat- . ,...~h titv> an exce en d Al eminence. ~ ~ quan " 0 'b th b~nks of the ~\fonongabela an . e· ter of real astomshment. n of . 01 . to ap immense extent, almost ghany rivers, as well as tbos~ o h ~~2;ed feet above low water !llark eve y bill, ri!3i~g more tb~n 0.~[ ~oal.· Whilst immense forests of at Pittsburg, lS pe_netrate VVI ~al cannot be deyeloped ; but every wood remain? the tu~l .va~~~ ~f c. h f ber will ~end to render the d·1 ng year by d1mtmshmg t ~ ~m : ' succee ' arent impo~tance of coal mor~ ~pp • been almost qeat~d by the use of Pitlsburg and Brownsville bav~ t . s steam is formed by a fuel so coal. When so powerful an agen a vance su erindu~ed in the arts cheaply and easily procured, }he ad Huma~ belief a few years ro'easur~s at once. the march o tfe~g:~·steam ; but the present .state of shrun~ fr.om, andUt~nodraSntc~ :c~as reassurad the former, and gtven the the arts m the n~te ' a e . blush to the latter. . .t f this article saw Iittl~ better than In a country W~lC~ the. wn er o ast is now establis.hed ever}: art a wilderness only tbuty·SIX ye:.~~ p ~nd embellish bqman SOCiety. that can :u:n~liorate ~he con ~~o:, floats the rapid steam-boat.; perWhere he saw the r~ e ca~oec' . . . human conveyance which na-baps the highest pomt of penectwn m . ture permits. . . ce that the first steam-boat that lt may not be trrelevant to notJr ' he New-Orleans, launched at ever floated on the western waters ~ a:h~ numbers now on the conflu· the city of Pittsburg., ~a.rch? 1811 't t r twenty and are annuapy ent waters of the MlSSlS81ppl amo~n 0 ~e~ ' ' . ' '' . increasing. · ' ' .. 267 CHAP. VII. \1 Tbat part of the United States inc1uded in the basin of St. Law· renee comprises about one-third part of the st~te ?f New-York ? a very'small tract of about two hundred square m1Jes m Pennsylvama ; nearly one-fourth part of the state of Ohio; all the territory of Michioan; about 1500 square miles in the state of Indiana ; and a large defectively known northwest territory skirting between Lakes 1\fichigan and Superior, and to the southwest of the latter. Of this region, those parts 1ying in India~a, Ohi'o, ~nd Pennsylva nia, have been noticed. The northwest hHr~tory remams uuexpJored, and coHtinues in possession of the native Indians. The western parts of New-York and the I\fichigan territory are the only parts of the expanse under review, that have not been described. · Contrary to the method we have hitherto pursued, we shall pre cede the statistical t<1ble of these two latter sections, Ly a review of the natural geography of the cou n"try in which both re inc1udeu. In a review of either West New- York or Michigan, the 1irst an(] primary feature that obtrudes itself is that great inland sea, composed of five lar<Ye, and several smaller Jakes. Of the large lakes, four aprertain to the country we are now describing; several of the smaller 1akes are als~ situ ated within tbis tract. Lake Jllickigan is properly composed of two Jakes, Michigan proper, and Green bay ; tbe latter lying to the northwest of the former. Lake Michigan is a fine sheet of water of about 270 long, by a medial width of seventy. The navigation in this lake is good, but the connexion with Huron difficult and shaHow. No settlements of whites of any considerable consequence have yet been formed upon either it:r. banks or confluent rivers. Most o( the lands that border th is lzke are the property of the aborigiual savages. Fort Micbilimakinac stands upon an island in the strait between Michigan and Huron lakes. Tbis town is of importance as a statioo for Indian trade. The island is barreu ; but from its locality mu.;t, in the advance of population and improvement, become o~- g!·~at i~por. tance. Many years past, the peltries exported from MJch•hmak•nac, amounted to upwards of $230,000 annually. This post was taken by the British during the last war, and given up at the peace. Huron is, next to Lake Superior, the most extensive of the five 1arge lakes of Caoada, lying in the form of a triangle ; the greatest length froltl Gloucester bay, the most easterly extension to l\1ichilimakinac, 220 miles, and the greatest breadth from Fort St. Clair to the north side of the lake, 200 miles. Huron is strictly composed of two lakes, which are divided by the Manatoulin islands, which extend in a loog chaiJJ from the peninsula of Cabo~'s bead to St. Mary's strait. This Jake is navigable for ships of any si~e; but fro~n. tb.e shallowness of St. Clair river and lake, the passage wto Lake F...ne JS impracticable, except for small vessels. A long bay, of ncar seventy miles in Jepth , protrudes from Huron into the .Michigan peninsqla, by the name of Sagan a bll.f. The country aro~nd Huron has been geu~ rally reprooented as sterile; 8ome la tter ,an~ l-'erb~ ps mor~ a~curati |