MAGAZINE of WESTERN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED NO. 1. NOVEMBER 1884 [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE. Portrait of Arthur St. Clair _Frontispiece._ Discovery of the Ohio River by La Salle, COL. CHARLES 1669–70. WHITTLESEY. 3 Geographical History of Ohio, C. C. BALDWIN. 16 A Description of Fort Harmar, 26 ILLUSTRATION—Fort Harmar in 1788. Organization of the Ohio Land Company, ALFRED MATHEWS. 32 ILLUSTRATION—Portrait of Rufus Putnam. Indian Occupation of Ohio, ALFRED MATHEWS. 41 Arthur St. Clair and the Ordinance of 1787, WILLIAM W. WILLIAMS. 49 Geo. Washington’s First Experience as Surveyor, WALTER BUELL. 62 ILLUSTRATION—Washington on a Surveying Expedition. Editorial Notes, 70 Pioneer Societies, 73 Historical News, 75 =TERMS=:—$4.00 per year, in advance; 50 cents per number. _Communications should be addressed to_ The Magazine of Western History, 145 St. Clair Street, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Entered at Cleveland Post Office as Second Class Matter. Copyright, 1884. WAR MEMORANDA By COL. CHARLES WHITTLESEY, Portraying the Escape of General Garnett in Tygart’s Valley; the affair of Scarey’s Run in West Virginia; the Capture of Fort Donelson; the Battle of Shiloh Church; the Movement on Cincinnati in 1862, with biographies of Union Generals. * * * * * Price, Neatly Bound in Cloth, $1,00. * * * * * ☞SENT POSTAGE PREPAID, ON RECEIPT OF PRICE. The Ohio Voter’s Manual. A Compendium of the Laws Relating to the Election, Term, Bond, Compensation, Duties and Powers of Every Officer Elected at the Polls in Ohio; containing also _A MAP OF THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS_, The Qualification of a Voter; Information as to Primary Meetings, Conventions and the Election Laws; a List of State Elections, Senatorial, Representative and Judicial Districts; the Population, etc., of States and Counties; Classes and Grades of Municipal Corporations; a List of all the Governors of Ohio and of all the Presidents and Vice Presidents of the United States, and other matters of interest.