Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 · Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin & Co. · leaf 552
any was begun in 178S, by a body of New Englanders, who, floating downthe Oliio from above, turned into the Muskingum Kiver, and on a point formed by the junction of that riverwith the Ohio, and opposite Fort Harmar, which the government had already erected on the lower penin-sula of the junction,… … CINCINNATI IX iSio« ^ The Scioto purchase was a sort of bribe, linked in thelegislation of Congress for the purpose of affording oppor-tunities for private speculation, which might insure the suc-cess of the Ohio Companys project {Life of Mattasseh Cut-ler, i. ch. 12). For this speculating…
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