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Show 306 APPENDIX. quishment of their claim~ to all the lands within the state, with the exception of the following reservations: At Upper Sandusky l2 miles square; at Wappakonata 10 miles square; at Lewistown 7. miles square ; at Hog creek 5 miles square; at Fort Seneca 7 mile11 square, and the tract west of St. Mary's river, supposed to be about 300 square miles, amounting in the whole to 425,880 acres. The whole tract of land purchased, inc]uding the Indian reservations, and the unceded tract west of the St. Mary ,s river, contains, by a rouah calculation, says the Supporter, 3,862,420 acres, from which dedu~ting the amount of the reservations as .'_above, will leave 3,345,5,10 to which the lndian title is extinguished. To this may be added, say 840,800 acres lying north of the Miami of the L;tkes, and east of a meridian running north from Fort Defiance, <>ed~d by the treaty of Detroit in 1807, making, agreeab1y to this estimate, an aggregate of 4,276 ,340 acres of unoccupied lands in the state of Ohio, to which the lndian title is extinguished. For these lands the treaty "allows the Wyandots an annuity of 4000 dollars, the Shawanoes 2000 dol1arR, and the Senecas 500 dol· lars; together with the sum of 3300 for 15 years, to lae divided be-h, een the Pottowattomies, Chippewas and Otto was." ' This, to the state of Ohio, is one of the most important negotiation s since the adoption of her constitution. Indeed to the whole western country, it is by no means unimportant. 'Vhen these lands are surveyed and placed in the market, the population of the state will ,increase with a rapidity heretofore unequalled. The local situation and fertility of soil of a great portion of this tract of country, will arre t the attention of settlers ; agriculture and commerce will soon sprea,l their genial influence over it, the cottage of the husbandman, and lowing herds will !WOn enliven the scene where the wilderness now prevails, flourishing towns and villages will soon assume the p1 ace of the wigwam. Our state will soon assume a high station io the political scale·. , [Western Spy. • No. , .,. • ~ W ASIIING'I oN, Sept. 14. ~t a late election for a representative to congress, in the state of I nchana, near1y ·1 0,000 votes were taken. The population of tbat state increase5 so rapidJy, that it is probable the census of 1820 wiJJ enti tle it to 5representatives in congress. N·o. VI. VEvAY, (INn.) Sept. 16. Jlmerican 1¥ine.-The one half of the crop of wine now arowiug h r . o ( •II t e .• nn o[ the late David Golay, dec€ased, was sold on Saturday h(; t ~-1 t pnbltc auction, for the benefit of his heirs, at 73 cents per • APPENDIX. 307 gallon, to be delivered as coming from the press, the purchas.ers to furnish the casks. The whole of the crop, the product of about three acres and a half, is estimated at 11 or 12 hundred gal!ons. Two men and a few children, besides tending that vineyard , raised a considerable quantity of corn and other article~. No. VII. Geogr~phical.-Hamilton, at the head waters of Aleghauy river, is a smalJ. ~til age ? bu.t from its situation, it is becoming a thoroughfare for famthes emtgratmg from the eastern states to the countl'ies lying on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.-Large arks of 60 feet by 12 anti roofed over, are sometimes built at Hamilton, on board of whi ch fa~ milies embark with their waggons and horses. Keel boat• of from 5 to 10 tons burden may also be used both ascending and descendinO' the rive~. T~.e distance fro~ Hamilton to Pittsburg through the turn~ of the nver, Js abottt 260 mtles, and the only road by land is about 170, yet the direct distan~e is much short of that, as may be seeu by the. map. . The .Aieghany ts a steady stre~m, and is navigable for arks and boats m sprmg ant! fall , and by occaswnal freshets in the summer. • No. VIII. INLAND NAVIGATION, The following communication relative to a new chan11el of commerce into the interior, wiiJ be Yiewed as of great interest. \Ve also i ns~rt an article on the sa.rne subj ect from a Pittsburg paper, and whtch has before appeawd m the Columbian. These articles are of too much importance to be passed over lightly and foraotten. It is a fact, that during the first week in this month four h~ndred tons of American pJaister arriveJ at the village of Ithaca, at the so uthe rn extre~ ity of Cayuga Jake, on its way to the western part of Penusy lvanta. A merchant from lVIarietta (Ohio), has just left this city with several tons .of goods, (it being his second trip,) who takes them from Albany by way of Geneva, and Hamilton on tbe Alegh any river, to his place in the state of Ohio. This gentleman is of opinion th at aoods can be transported from this place to Pittsburg for considerabl; less than they can be tak en from Phil adelphia over the mountains to Pittsburg. Plai~ter is found in great quantities in the coun ti ec; of · eneva, Ontario and Cayuga-anu is get ting use near Pi ttsburgh, a appears by the following article from a Pittsburg paper: lVIr. Scull-Sir, l think it a du!y I o ve to the public to inform them of the benefits arising from the pla is ter lately bro ug! t to Pittsbu rg by H. & W. Jack. • |