Ohio archæological et historique trimestriel . oining comtés. Ce n'est que onze ans avant la colonie de Franklinton qui a si intelligent un État-homme que James Monroe, après une visite dans la nature sauvage de l'Ohio à l'époque afin de s'informer aussi précisément que pos-sible que le caractère et l'état du Nord-Ouest terri-tory, Écrit à Thomas Jeflferson comme suit: Une grande partie du territoire est misérablement pauvre, surtout près des lacs Michigan et Erie; et cela sur le Missis-. L'Ohio India?Is. 73 ?sippi et l'Illinois se compose de vastes plaines qui ont nothad,

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Ohio archæological and historical quarterly . oining counties. It was but eleven years be-fore the settlement of Franklinton that so intelligent a states-man as James Monroe, after a visit to the then wilderness ofOhio for the purpose of informing himself as accurately as pos-sible as to the character and condition of the Northwest terri-tory, wrote to Thomas Jeflferson as follows: A great part of the territory is miserably poor, especiallythat near Lakes Michigan and Erie; and that upon the Missis-. The Ohio India?is. 73 ?sippi and the Illinois consists of extensive plains which have nothad, from appearances, and will not have, a single bush on them.for ages. The districts, therefore, within which these fall, will, perhaps, never contain a sufficient number of inhabitants to en-title them to membership in the confederacy (of states) and inthe meantime the people who^ may settle within them will begoverned by the resolutions of Congress, in which they willnot be represented. The territory referred to by Mr. Monroe included what isnow the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis-consin. At that time there were no permanent settlements bythe white race within all this vast territory, and with the excep-tion of a few French traders and a few captives among the In-dians, there were within it no white people. It was an unclaimedand unbroken wilderness. Within this territory there are nowfive of the most populous and prosperous states in the Union, containing half a hundred c

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