Author: Charles Cist

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-12-22

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781334745508

Excerpt from Sketches and Statistics of Cincinnati in 1851 A well-defined circle of hills - three miles in its diameter, and of remarkable regularity of outline, bisected east and west by the river Ohio, and north and south by Mill creek and Licking river marks the site of Cincinnati, as its precise centre. The Ohio, at this point, makes in its course a bold, abrupt sweep, in the immediate curve of which, and on its northern edge, lies the city, which is, therefore, when approached by water, hardly visible until its entire panorama bursts upon the eye. The territory it embraces, includ ing its north-east suburb - Fulton - may be not inaptly compared, in shape, to the old-fashioned harp, the curved side of which is formed by the Ohio; the upper edge, by Mill creek; and the straight edge, by the northern line of the city, brought down at the north-east at an acute angle to the base of the instrument. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.