this city; it being about 40 miles to Detroit and 22 miles to Toledo by railroad route. This line of travel will be extended south to Cincinnati. Steamers run from Detroit to Toledo, stopping at Monroe daily during the season of navigation.

The City of SANDUSKY, capital of Erie Co., Ohio, is a port of entry and flourishing place of trade. It is advantageously situated on Sandusky Bay, three miles from Lake Erie, in N. lat. 41° 27', W. long. 82° 45'. The bay is about 20 miles long, and five or six miles in width, forming a capacious and excellent harbor, into which steamers and vessels of all sizes can enter with safety. The average depth of water is from ten to twelve feet. The city is built on a bed of limestone, producing a good building material. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants, a court-house and jail, eight churches, two banks, several wellkept hotels, and a number of large stores and manufacturing establishments of different kinds. This is the terminus of the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad, running to Dayton, 153 miles, and the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad, 116 miles in length. The Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, northern division, also runs through Sandusky, affording altogether great facilities to travelers, in connection with a line of steamers running to Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo

The City of TOLEDO is situated on the Maumee River, four miles from its mouth, and ten miles from the Turtle Island Light, at the outlet of the Maumee Bay into Lake Erie. The harbor is good, and the navigable channel from Toledo to the lake is of sufficient depth for all steamers or sail vessels navigating the lakes, with the exception of a short distance through the bay, which requires deepening from one to two feet. Toledo is the eastern terminus of the Wabash and Erie Canal, running through the Maumee and Wabash valleys, and communicating with the Ohio River at Evansville, a distance of 474 miles; also of the Miami and Erie Canal, which branches from the above canal 68 miles west of Toledo, and runs southwardly through the Miami Valley in Western Ohio, and communicates with the Ohio River at Cincinnati.

"The railroads diverging from Toledo are the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad, running through the southern counties of Michigan and the northern counties of Indiana, and making its western terminus at Chicago, Illinois, at a distance of 243 miles; also, the Air Line Railroad, running due west from Toledo, through Northwestern Ohio and the northern counties of Indiana to Goshen, a distance of 110 miles, where it connects with the Northern Indiana Railroad, running to Chicago; also the terminus of the Jackson Branch of the Michigan Southern Road, and the Detroit, Monroe and Toledo Railroad.

"It is also the eastern terminus of the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad, running in a southwesterly direction through the Maumee and Wabash valleys, crossing the eastern line of the State of Illinois, about 125 miles south of Chicago, and continuing in a southwesterly course through Danville, Springfield, Jacksonville, Naples, etc., in Central Illinois, to the Mississippi River, and connecting with the Hannibal and St. Joseph Road, which stretches nearly due west through the State of Missouri to St. Joseph, on the Missouri River. It also, in connection with other roads, affords a through line of travel to St. Louis. The Dayton and Michigan Railroad (to be completed the present year), which connects Toledo with Cincinnati, is much the shortest railroad line connecting Lake Erie with the Ohio River. Besides the above important roads, the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad terminates here.

"Toledo is the nearest point for the immense country traversed by these canals and railroads, where a transfer can be made of freight to the more cheap transportation by the lakes, and thence through the Erie Canal, Welland Canal, or Oswego Canal, to the sea-board. It is not merely the country traversed by these canals and railroads that send their products, and receive their merchandise, through Toledo, but many portions of the States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and Iowa find Toledo the cheapest and most expeditious lake-port for the interchange and transfer of their products and merchandise."

This city is the capital of Lucas County, Ohio, where is situated a court-house and jail, several fine churches and school edifices, six hotels, and a great number of stores and storehouses, also several extensive manufacturing establishments.

The population of Toledo in 1850 was about 4,000, and now it is supposed to contain 12,000 inhabitants, and is rapidly increasing in wealth and numbers. The shipping interest is increasing, here being transhipped annually an enormous amount

of grain, and other kinds of agricultural product of the great West; it being, no doubt, destined, like Chicago, to export direct to European ports, lying as it does on the direct railroad and steamboat route from St. Louis to Montreal.

At this time there are in process of erection in Toledo many handsome dwellings, numerous handsome blocks of stores, a post-office and custom-house by the general government, and a first-class hotel; these two latter buildings, from the plans we have seen, would do credit to any city, and when completed can be classed among the most elegant structures. No city in the State can boast of finer private residences than Toledo; and the general character of the buildings erected in the past three years is substantial and elegant.

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PERRYSBURG, capital of Wood Co., Ohio, is situated on the right bank of the Maumee River, 18 miles above its entrance into Maumee Bay, the southern termination of Lake Erie. contains a court-house and jail, four churches, 20 stores of different kinds, three steam saw-mills, a tannery, and several other manufacturing establishments. Population about 1,500. Here is the head of steamboat navigation on the Maumee River, affording thus far a sufficient depth of water for steamers of a large class.

MAUMEE CITY, capital of Lucas Co., Ohio, and a port of entry, is situated on the Maumee River, opposite Perrysburg, at the foot of the rapids and at the head of navigation, nine miles above Toledo. A side cut here connects the Wabash and Erie Canal with the river The Toledo and Illinois Railroad also passes through this place. It contains a court-house, five churches, 20 stores, four flouring-mills, three saw-mills, one oil-mill, and other manufacturing establishments propelled by water-power, the supply being here almost inexhaustible.

MAUMEE RIVER rises in the northeast part of Indiana, and flowing northeast enters Lake Erie, through Maumee Bay. It is about 100 miles long, navigable 18 miles, and furnishing an extensive water-power throughout its course.

TRIP FROM BUFFALO TO DETROIT-DIRECT.

COMMCDIOUS steamers of about two thousand tons burden leave Buffalo direct for Detroit, daily, Sundays excepted, at ten o'clock P.M., or on the arrival of the Eastern express train of cars, leaving Albany the same morning; also, connects with cars from Niagara Falls, etc.

On leaving the wharf at Buffalo, the steamers usually run direct for Long Point on the Canada, or north shore of Lake Erie, proceeding for most of the distance in British waters, to the mouth of Detroit River.

LONG POINT, 65 miles from Buffalo, is a long strip of land, nearly 20 miles long and from one to three miles in width, covered for the most part with a stunted growth of forest trees. It was formerly a peninsula, running out from the land in an easterly direction, nearly half way across the lake; but the waters having made a wide breach across its western extremity, has converted it into an island. There is an important lighthouse on the east end to guide the mariner on his passage through Lake Erie, here about 40 miles wide, and where is found the greatest depth of water. To this Point both shores of the lake can be seen in a clear morning from the deck of the steamer, affording a most grand sight when the sun rises on a cloudless day. Then may usually been seen a fleet of vessels wending their way toward Buffalo or the mouth of the Welland Canal, through which channel annually passes a great number of steam propellers and sail vessels on their way to Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River.

PORT COLBORNE, C. W., situated about 20 miles west of Buffalo, lies at the mouth of the Welland Canal, while PORT MAITLAND, some 20 miles farther, is situated at the mouth of Grand River, where is a navigable feeder communicating with the canal, thus affording two entrances to the above canal.

PORT DOVER, about 70 miles west of Buffalo and 40 miles distant from Hamilton by proposed railroad route, is situated on the north shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the river Lynn. Here is a good harbor, and the village is a place of growing importance, containing about 1,000 inhabitants.

PORT RYERSE and PORT ROWAN are small villages on the Canada shore, situated on the bay formed by Long Point. Inland there is to be found a rich and fine farming district, consisting of some of the best lands in Canada West.

The Sand Hills, immediately west of Long Point, are seen for some distance as the steamer pursues her onward course toward Point aux Pins, passing through the widest part of the lake, where both shores are lost sight of for a number of miles. The water usually presents a clear green color in the middle, but near the shore is more or less tinged with muddy water, proceeding from the streams emptying into the lake.

PORT BURWELL, C. W., about 35 miles west of Long Point, is handsomely situated at the mouth of Otter Creek. Here is a light-house and good harbor. A large amount of lumber and other products are annually exported from this place to Eastern markets.

PORT STANLEY, about 25 miles farther west, is handsomely situated at the mouth of Kettle Creek, being in part surrounded by high and picturesque hills in the immediate vicinity. The harbor is well protected, and much frequented by British and American vessels running on Lake Erie. It is nine miles south of St. Thomas and twenty-four from London, the chief town of the county of Middlesex, for which place it may be considered the out-port. A plank-road runs between the two places; also, the London and Port Stanley Railroad, connecting with the Great Western Railway of Canada. Steamers run from Port Stanley to Buffalo, Cleveland, and other ports on Lake Erie.

POINT AUX PINS, or ROND' EAU (usually called by the American navigators Round O), about 100 miles west of Long Point, is a cape which projects from the Canada shore, inclosing