All the western states and territories . nging to the company, set out toward he ascended the hills overlooking the town-plot, he heard the singing of the reverberation of the sound from hill-tops and trees, threw the good man into a seriousdilemma. The music at first seemed to be behind, then in the tops of the trees or theclouds. He stopped till, by accurate listenin<,\ lie caught the direction of the sound, andwent on, till passing the brow of the hill, when he saw the audience sitting on the levelholow. He went home and told liis wife that //it promise of God is a bond
All the western states and territories . nging to the company, set out toward he ascended the hills overlooking the town-plot, he heard the singing of the reverberation of the sound from hill-tops and trees, threw the good man into a seriousdilemma. The music at first seemed to be behind, then in the tops of the trees or theclouds. He stopped till, by accurate listenin<,\ lie caught the direction of the sound, andwent on, till passing the brow of the hill, when he saw the audience sitting on the levelholow. He went home and told liis wife that //it promise of God is a bond; a Welsh OHIO. 119 phrase, signifying that we liave security, equal to a bond, that religion prevail every-where. He said, these ?nust he f;nod people. 1 am nut afraid to go among them.*Though he could not understand English, he constantly attended the reading the uuisic on that occasion niaue such an impression uihui his mind, that when hebjcame old and met tlie hrst settlers, he would always tell over this Court Iloiisey ZancsfUIe. Zanesyillt:, tlie cnpltnl of Muskiiii;-uiii county, is beautifully f^ituated onthe east bank of the ]\Iuskin>:am Kiver, the mouth of the Lickingcreek, 54 miles E. of Coluuibus, 82 from Wheeling, and 179 fromCincinnati. The Muskingum, in passing the town, has a natural descent ofnine feet in a distance of about a mile, which is increased by dams to sixteenleet, thus aiforiyng groat water-power, which is used by extensive manufac-tories of various kinds. The number of factories using steam power is alsolarge, arising from the abundance of bituminous coal supplied from the sur-rounding hills. kStcauiboats can ascend from the Ohio to this point, andseveral make regular passages between Ziinesville and Cincinnati. The Cen-tral Ohio xlailroad connects it with Coluuibus on one hand and Wheeling onthe other; the Zanosvillo, Wilmington and Cincinnati Railroad, about 130miles long, terminates here, and connec
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