What to see in America . n and half-frozenstream, and at the end of four days found a haven on thenorth side in Sycamore Inlet, opposite the mouth of theLicking River. There they converted the planks and tim-bers of their barges into cabins right on the trail overwhich the aborigines had passed to and fro for centuriesbetween the Great Lakes and the Kentucky hunting fantastic schoolmaster, who combined a smattering knowl-edge of classic languages with a lively imagination, com-pounded the name Losantiville for the new settlement. Itmeans The village opposite the mouth of the Licking.
What to see in America . n and half-frozenstream, and at the end of four days found a haven on thenorth side in Sycamore Inlet, opposite the mouth of theLicking River. There they converted the planks and tim-bers of their barges into cabins right on the trail overwhich the aborigines had passed to and fro for centuriesbetween the Great Lakes and the Kentucky hunting fantastic schoolmaster, who combined a smattering knowl-edge of classic languages with a lively imagination, com-pounded the name Losantiville for the new settlement. Itmeans The village opposite the mouth of the stands for Licking, os means mouth, and anti meansopposite. Shortly after naming the place the schoolmasterwas scalped by the Indians. The name seems to haverequired too much explanation, and was presently changedto Cincinnati. The citys nearness to the slave states, andits close social and commercial relations with the South, ledits people to oppose antislavery laws and even the discussion Q 226 What to See in America. of slavery. Neverthe-less, the city was arendezvous for fugi-tive slaves escaping toCanada, and no lessthan 3000 in all wereharbored and helpedon their way by LeviCoffin, a Quaker cit-izen. The place hasdeveloped into a cityof homes and is Americas leadingcity in the productionof schoolbooks, is nearthe lead in issuing re-ligious publications,and it turns out annu-ally some 50,000,000packs of playing cards, which makes it the largest centerof this industry in the world. The city has a frontage offourteen miles on the Ohio, and has spanned the river withfive massive bridges of steel and stone. In November, 1791, the Battle of the Wabash was foughtwith the Indians on the western border of the state nearthe present town of Greenville. An army of 1500 whiteswas attacked by Turkey Foot and his savage followers inthe drifting fog of dawning day, and stampeded like a herdof crazed cattle. Nine hundred were killed or the next two years the I
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