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CINCINNATI AND ITS ENVIRONS.
house, jail, four market-houses, one of them500 feet in length, the Bazaar, U. S. BranchBank, the Cincinnati College , the CatholicAthcnsum, the Medical College, for which asecond spacious and commodious building isbeing erected, the Mechanics’ Institute, Thea-tre, and a second one now being erected, twoMuseums, the Hospital and Lunatic Asylum ,and the Woodward High School in the pro-gress of erection. Some other public build-ings are in contemplation. Beside these, therearc 24 churches, great and small. Of thesethe Second Presbyterian church is the hand-somest, the exterior being of agreeable archi-tecture, and the interior decidedly beautifulThe Unitarian church is a singularly neat one,The interior of the Catholic church is striking.The first and third Presbyterian churches arespacious buildings, as the new Methodistchurch will be when completed. A very neatBaptist church is nearly completed. Some ofthe other churches make a respectable appear-ance. There are many fine blocks of storeson Front and Main streets, and the eye isarrested by many beautiful private habitations.Architectural taste is daily becoming more en-lightened and agreeable. The dull red of thebrick walls is giving way to more pleasingshades between white and green; and a beau-tiful stucco imitating marble and granite isgetting into fashion. The number of substan-tial buildings added annually to the city forthree years past averages 450. It has alreadybecome a great manufacturing town, and isconstantly becoming more so. Our limits pre-clude details; but all the substantial manu-factures known in our country are carried onto a greater or less extent. The manufacturesin iron are very great, particularly in the arti-cle of heavy castings, and all sorts of machi-nery driven by steam. Of such establishmentsthere are 9 or 10, and some of them on a groatscale The next most extensive article is cabi-
net work. Steam-boat building is a greatitem. Hatting is pursued to a great extent.It is believed that the city contains at least 40manufacturing establishments driven by steam.There are two fire companies, and 34 charitable societies, and 25 religious societies, inwhich most of the religious opinions of Chris-tendom are represented, and whose mutualwatchfulness of each other educes concordfrom jealousy, by Iiindering the hurtful pre-dominance of any one of them, and enablingeach to pursue its respective interests unmo-lested and in peace. Though the imperfectfilling out of the magnificent plan of the city,the cumbering of the streets with timber, stone,bricks, and mortar, and the inconvenience ofactual building present an image of crudenessand immaturity, it needs little spirit of prophe-cy to predict from the past to the future, thatthis city, which will be shortly central to morethan two millions of inhabitants, which pre-sents the greatest variety of models in the the-ories and imaginings of strangers from allparts of the world, which evolves the germs ofemulation and rivalry to a fault, and whichabounds in provisions, natural wealth, fuel,and all the materials of building, and which ismoreover a healthy town, wall, in the courseof a few years, vie in beauty and populationwith the first towns in the Union.
The buildings of the Cincinnati Manufac-turing Company, on the bank above Deercreek, are numerous and extensive ; the mainedifice is 150 feet long, from 20 to 37 lectwide, and from two to four stories high.
The most capacious, elevated and perma-nent building in this place, is the Steam Mill,erected in the years 1812, ’13, and ’14 on theriver beach, upon a bed of horizontal lime-stonerocks, and in high floods is for its wholelength exposed to the current. The founda-tion is G2 by 87 feet, and about 10 feet thick.Its height is 110 feet, and the number of sto-