[30] W. T. Sherman. [31] “Ohio in the War.” Reed. [32] Ten miles in length. [33] “The Making of the Ohio Valley States.” [34] The death rate per 1000 of the inhabitants of the present capital is nearly double ordinary mortuary statistics of other cities. A single fatal disease--consumption--shows a death ratio per 1000, seven times greater than any city west of the Alleghany Mountains.--_Hess._ * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter and relabeled consecutively through the document. Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned. Punctuation has been made consistent. Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Captions were added to illustrations for text in the illustration as follows: p. 95: THE OLIVE BRANCH p. 109: SEAL p. 110: SEAL p. 111: SEAL p. 256: _LORD DUNMORE’S CAMPAIGN._ The following changes were made: p. 40: ” inserted (had existed.” Without) p. 47: Scoth changed to Scotch (sable Scotch Collie) p. 219: Lo changed to Love (nature. Love had) p. 333: deciminated changed to disseminated (and disseminated by) End of Project Gutenberg's The Squirrel Hunters of Ohio, by N. E. Jones