Much has been erroneously reported, and in some measure believed abroad, on this subject, prejudicial in its tendency to the interests and prosperity of this Town. We feel it to be our duty, briefly to correct some mistaken views, entertained by strangers respecting our place. During the high freshets of the present spring, whilst Louisville, Cincinnati, and other places, - are reported to have been more or less deluged; (and in the streets of one of said Towns, Steam Boats it was said, “were seen to ride at anchor,”) the waters of the Rivers here (Ohio and Muskingum) did not transcend the banks by some feet.
The truth
is, that the banks of the Ohio at this place, are quite as high, if not higher
than they are at the generality of the towns on the River. The occasional inundations at this place,
which occur perhaps once in ten years, result from the concurrent and
simultaneous rise in the two rivers – Ohio and Muskingum, the latter, at its
confluence, uniting with the former at right angles.
Some are
led to suppose, from the Bug-Bear stories circulated abroad, that this
town is situated very low, and is a sort of swamp or morass, than which,
nothing can be more foreign from the truth.
Our river banks are about forty feet high, and on Point Harmar still
higher. At a short distance from the
river, after ascending an acclivity of fifty or sixty feet, a beautiful and
extensive plain presents itself to view, on which a part of the town is built;
this summit has never been approached by flood, (since the general deluge)
scarcely to its base.
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