Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-09-28

are past finding QUIT" and, being raw
ished with the greatness of his discov-
cries, he inquires-who art thou, 0
Nature, so excellent in wisdom, so
mighty in power? Thou hast replied
II am the handmade of Jehovah; he
called me into existence, and clothed
me with beauty the heavens with its
spacious furniture, and the earth with
its contents, are the work of His hands
Thus should every admirer of nature
look through nature up tonature's God,
as did David, the illustrious king of Is
rael, when contemplating the wonders
ofthe sky.
| THE OR1o.-No river in the world
rolls for thousand miles current so
smooth and peaceful. Its 80 tributa-
ries wind through as many valleys in
no different States. The first size
the Tennessee-having pursued ma
vigable course through three States, for
more than 1000 miles, falls into the O.
hio, SO miles above its mouth. The
Cumberland, 62 miles, being naviga-
BILE for steamboats, to Nashville, and for
kcelboa 800 miles further. The Wa
bash, 100 miles. Green river, eos
miles from the mouth of the Ohio
navigabIe 600 miles, and 200 yards
wide at its mouth. Kentucky, 5o4
understandable l5c miles and as ms
ny yards wide at its mouth. Great
Miami, $50 miles-Scioto, 742-Great
Kanawha, $50 miles; navigable Ga
miles to the Salines, where. annually is
made from 100000 to 100000 bushels
of salt. Great Muskingum, $50 miles.
These are principal auxiliaries which
give substance and strength tothe beau
tifnl Ohio. In its course Of more than
thousand miles, it washes six States,
and with its tributaries, has more than
5000 miles Of navigable waters. Its
main width is GOO yards; with the ex-
ception of its lowest SO miles, its av-
eragc width is more than 1000 yards.
The average rapidity Of its current is
miles an hour. Its average descent
in mile is about inches. 1t some
times rises SO or more feet. At low
water, its surface at Cincinnati is sup
posed to,be 100 feet below the level Of
Lake Erie; and 43O above that Of the
tide water of the Atlantic Ocean. Such
is the Ohio.-Cincinnat Latnsin0ry.
The TRADE OF THE wEsT.-But
little, comparatively, is known in the
east, of the vast extent. rapid growth,
and immense trade, Of the West, and
the splendid destiny to which she is
Fastening with giant strides. These
things must be seen to be properly APP
preciated. Accustomed to the limited
boundaries of the eastern states, and
overrating the resources and capacities
Of their cities, Eastern men suppose
that single city will be amply sufi-
cient to supply all the wants of the
west, to purchase all it's surplus pro-
duce, and to render it tributary to its
ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Such an idea is pre-
posterous and absurd.
The resources of the Westare scarce
1ly beginning to be developed; and be-
/ fore New York shall have enlarged the
Erie Canal and constructed the New
York and Erie Rail Road, or Pennsyl-
vania completed her system of inter-
nal improvements, or the Chesapeake
and Ohio Canal, andthe Baltimore and
Ohio Rail Road be brought up to ter
mination, the present trade of the west
will be more than doubled.
It's estimated that twelve years will
be required to enlarge the Erie Canal.
At the expiration Of that period, Ohio
will in all probability contain million
and half-Illinois million-Mis-
souri, Enthusiastically million
and the new States Of Michigan and
Arkansas, nearly million Of inhabit-
ants.
The increase of population in Yves.
tern Pennsylvania and Virginia will
probably be million-what it will a.
mount to in the vast tract of country
beyond the boundaries Of the Wiscon-