. Rambles in the path of the steam-horse. An off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville . everal large pork- ^^^r, ^^ ^^ S-—. ^-^, v--i •^ , . (O ^ -^ ^ ^^ -oV —^ packing establishments, and is ^ Meetinjr of the Steamboat, the Railway, the Canal,connected with Cincinnati and the Stage coach, and the Telegraph. the intermediate river towns by a daily line of steamers. Three milesfurthe
. Rambles in the path of the steam-horse. An off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville . everal large pork- ^^^r, ^^ ^^ S-—. ^-^, v--i •^ , . (O ^ -^ ^ ^^ -oV —^ packing establishments, and is ^ Meetinjr of the Steamboat, the Railway, the Canal,connected with Cincinnati and the Stage coach, and the Telegraph. the intermediate river towns by a daily line of steamers. Three milesfurther down, we have the village of Rising Sun, beautifully situated onhigh ground, and flourishing with a population of some three deals out justice to all who require it in and for the county of Ohio. Some twenty-five miles below Lawrenceburg, in Kentucky, the BigBone Lick empties into the Ohio river. This is a celebrated spot—beingwithin a short distance of the Great Bone Lick Springs. The water isthoroughly impregnated with salt; and the place is so called because ofthe great quantity of bones of the mastadon and of elephants foundscattered around the vicinity, in the alluvial surface of the earth. Thefirst account of the visit of any white man to this place was by James 34*. - ■;. 402 EAMBLES IN THE PATH OF THE STEAM HOESE. Bone Lick Springs.—Warsaw.—Vevay.—Carrollton. Douglass, of Virginia, in 1773, who made use of the rib bones of the ani-mals for tent poles ! These animals, as appears from their remains, weremuch larger than any existing, or more recent species of which we haveany knowledge, and their bones are scattered all over the western country,thus showing that they once constituted a numerous race. Twotusks found at this spot measured eleven feet in length, and at the largeend over six inches in diameter. A collection of these bones was made in1803, by Dr. Goforth ; another in 1805, by order of President Jefferson ;and various others have b
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