The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . everence toward God, love of country, unshaken faithin their own ability to do whatever they set their handsto, distinguished one and all. These qualities were allstrongly brought out from the moment that the mostambitious housebuilder among them struck his axe tothe haft in the firsttree. These frugalNew Englandersthought it down-right extravaganceto be set to workchopping downblack-walnut-trees,to be sawed up into building boards. One noble black-walnut measuredtwenty-two feet in girth; a sycamore, forty-four , too, grew a profusion
The making of the Ohio Valley states, 1660-1837 . everence toward God, love of country, unshaken faithin their own ability to do whatever they set their handsto, distinguished one and all. These qualities were allstrongly brought out from the moment that the mostambitious housebuilder among them struck his axe tothe haft in the firsttree. These frugalNew Englandersthought it down-right extravaganceto be set to workchopping downblack-walnut-trees,to be sawed up into building boards. One noble black-walnut measuredtwenty-two feet in girth; a sycamore, forty-four , too, grew a profusion of the spreading horse-chestnuts, whose fruit gave to Ohio its nickname of theBuckeye State. But among those best known, andmost valued, by these New Englanders, was the sugar-maple, which promised future harvests of sweets in abun-dance. In this tree was so much timber; in that, somuch sugar. Another object of curious Avonder to these peoplewas the depth of rich mould, seen as they sailed alongthe banks. But, perhaps, the greatest wonder of all. ELEPHANT MOUND. 156 MARIETTA, THE COKNER-STONE was the huge mounds,^ roads, or earthworks rising onall sides of them, so old, indeed, that trees of great agewere growing out of them. Who could have built them ?And what had become of their builders ? These ques-tions remain unanswered to this day. These moundsare the American Sphinx. Upon one of the highest mounds, apparently an older
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