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Excerpt from Prose Writings of William Cullen Bryant, Vol. 2: Travels, Addresses, and Comments
Cincinnati is surrounded by hills, and they are all covered with wood. They recede north from the river in a kind of semicircle, in which lies the town, and on the southern Side of the river are hills also, so that it appears to be placed in a syl van amphitheatre, through the most of which ?ows the Ohio, always quiet and placid, one of our noblest and longest streams, and justifying, in the placidity and evenness of its current and the beauty of its shores, the French appellation of La Belle Rz'vz'ére. Cincinnati contains thirty thousand in habitants. Some of the private houses are very handsome and costly, and the public edifices equal the average Of those in New York. Many new buildings are going up, and among others a spacious theatre. The market is well supplied, es pecially with strawberries, of which I have seen tubsful. The inhabitants appear to be very industrious and busy, but they have a sallow look in comparison with the people of the mountains of Maryland, and the hills of Fayette County, In Pennsylvania.
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