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OHIO .

TABLF, OF THE COUNTIES AND COUNTY TOWNS. Continued.

Counties.

pop. 1*30.

&]. M.

County Towns.

Pop.

Dist. from

Columbus .

Pickaway

m

15,935

495

Circleville

1,136

26

Pike

s

6,024

414

Piketon

271

65

Portage

ne

18,827

752 Ravenna, township

806

127

Preble

w

16,255

432:Eaton

511

92

Putnam

nw

230

576,Sugar Grove

148

Richland

nm

24,007

900|Mansfield

840

71

Ross

sm

24,053

672|Chillicothc

2,846

45

Sandusky

n

2,851

656'Lower Sandusky

351

103

Scioto

s

8,730

581 Portsmouth

1,064

91

Seneca

nm

5,148

546

Tiffin

248

85

Shelby

wm

3,671

418

Sydney

240

86

Stark

em

26,784

780

Canton

1,257

116

Trumbull

ne

26,154

875

Warren

510

157

Tuscarawas

em

14,208

654

New Philadelphia

410

107

Union

em

3,192

430

Marysville

142

37

Van Wert

nw

49

432;Willshire

146

Warren

swm

21,493

400 Lebanon

1,157

83

Washington

S

11,731

670 Marietta

1,207

106

Wayne

nm

23,344

660j Wooster

977

86

Williams

nw

377

OOOjDcflance

52

175

Wood

nw

1,095

744jPerrysburg

182

135

Total

937,679

40,150 j

Population at different Periods.

Population.

In 1790, about 3,0001800, 45,365

Increase from 1790 to 1800,

43,365

1810,

230,760

- 1800 1810,

195,395

1820,

581,434

1810 1820,

350,674

1830,

937,637

- 1820 1830,

356,203

The rivers which flow into Lake Erie on the north, are Maumee, Sandusky ,Huron , Vermilion, Black, Cuyahoga, Grand, and Ashtabula ; those in thesouth flowing into the Ohio , are the Muskingum, Hockhocking, Little andGreat Miami. The Au-Glaize and St. Marys in the western part of the state,are branches of the Maumee.

The interior and northern parts of the country, bordering on Lake Erie , aregenerally level, and in some places marshy. Nearly one-third of the eastern andsouth-eastern part is very hilly and broker.. The hills are exceedingly numer-ous, but they seldom rise into considerable mountains. Immediately upon thebanks of the Ohio , and several of its tributaries, are numerous tracts of intervalor meadow land, of great fertility. In the interior, on both sides of the Scioto,and on the Great and Little Miami, are perhaps the most extensive bodies oflevel and rich land in the state. In many parts there are large prairies, paiticularly on the head waters of the Muskingum and Scioto, and between theScioto and the two Miamis. Some of these prairies are low and marshy, pro-ducing large quantities of coarse grass, from 2 to 5 feet high; some of whichis of a tolerably good quality: other prairies are elevated, and are frequentlycalled barrens; not always on account of their sterility, for they are often fer-tile. The most elevated tracts of country between the rivers, are the wettestand most marshy in the state; and the driest land is that which borders on thevarious streams of water. Among the forest trees, are oak of various species,maple, hickory, beach, birch, poplar, sycamore, ash, pawpaw, buck-eye,cherry, &c.