Excerpt from The Eastern Western States of America, Vol. 2 of 3 Description of Chillicothe - Intellectual society - Surrounding country Indian mounds - Journey by stage - Waverley - Piketon - Parallel walls leading to Indian mounds - Raised parallel roads, supposed to be for foot races - Beauty and fertility of the Scioto valley - Extraordinary size and productiveness of corn and wheat - Arrival at portsmouth-kind recep tion there - Advantageous position chosen for the town Scenery - Pub lic and private dwellings - Religious revivals - Dishonesty in trade-two white crows, offspring of black parents - Voyage by steamboat from Portsmouth to Cincinnati. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.