We Passed Through A Large And Very Beautiful Portion Of The State Of Ohio;
The Soil, Wherever Cultivated, Teeming With Crops, And Elsewhere With A
Vegetation No Less Beautiful Than Luxuriant; A Mixture Of Small Weed
Prairies, And Forests Of Splendid Timber.
Extensive districts of Ohio are
still without inhabitants, yet its energetic people have constructed
within a period of five years half as many miles of railroad as the whole
of Great Britain contains; they are a "great people" they do "go a-
head," these Yankees.
The newly cleared soil is too rich for wheat for
many years; it grows Indian corn for thirty in succession, without any
manure. Its present population is under three millions, and it is
estimated that it would support a population of ten millions, almost
entirely in agricultural pursuits. We were going a-head, and in a few
hours arrived at Forest, the junction of the Clyde, Mad River, and Indiana
lines.
Away with all English ideas which may be conjured up by the word
junction - the labyrinth of iron rails, the smart policeman at the
points, the handsome station, and elegant refreshment-rooms. Here was a
dense forest, with merely a clearing round the rails, a small shanty for
the man who cuts wood for the engine, and two sidings for the trains
coming in different directions. There was not even a platform for
passengers, who, to the number of two or three hundred, were standing on
the clearing, resting against the stumps of trees.
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