The price is very moderate, being about fourpence a pound.
Monongahela whisky is a most important article of manufacture in the neighbourhood, being produced annually to the value of 560,000l.

There are forty-four foundries, one-third of which are employed in the stove-trade; as many as a thousand stoves have been made in one day.

The value of foundry products is estimated at 725,000l.

annually.
If commerce be the true wealth and prosperity of a nation, there never was a nation in the history of the world that possessed by nature the advantages which this country enjoys.

Take the map, and look at the position of this city; nay, go two hundred miles higher up, to Marietta.
From that port, which is nearly two thousand miles from the ocean, the "Muskingum," a barque of three hundred and fifty tons, went laden with provisions, direct to Liverpool, in 1845, and various other vessels have since that time been built at Cincinnati; one, a vessel of eight hundred and fifty tons, called the "Minnesota:" in short, there is quite an active business going on; shipbuilders from Maine coming here to carry on their trade--wood, labour, and lodging being much cheaper than on the Eastern coast.
It is now time to continue our journey, and as the water is high enough, we will embark on the "Ohio," and steam away to Louisville.