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ROUTE TO TEXAS.
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There are about 1,500 acres of vines planted; 1,000 in full
bearing, producing this year about 150 gallons only, to the acre.
In 1853, the average crop was 650 gallons; the extreme yield
900 gallons to the acre. The acres planted in 1845, 350;
in 1852, 1,200. Missouri and Illinois have also (1855) 1,100
acres planted. Mr. Longworth is said to have at the end of
1855, 300,000 bottles stored in his cellars; one-half bottled
during the year. It will not be many years, I hope, before the
famous hog crop will be of less value to this region in compari-
son. Let us pray for the day when honest wine and oil shall
take the place of our barbarous whisky and hog-fat.
The approach to Cincinnati is announced by the appearance
of villas, scattered on the hills that border the north side
of the river, and by the concentration of human life and
motion along the bank. But a moment after these indica-
tions attract your attention, the steamer rounds with a great sweep
to the levee, and, before you appreciate your arrival, is pushing its
nose among the crowd of boats, butting them unmercifully hither
and thither in the effort for an inside place.
CINCINNATI.
From the edge of the stream rises the levee-a paved open hill
of gentle inclination, allowing steamboats and carmen to carry
on their usual relations at all stages of water. Then extends
backward, on a gently-rising plateau, a square mile or two of
brick blocks and hubbub. Then rise steeply the hills by which,
in semicircle, the city is backed. At their base is a horrid de-
bateable ground, neither bricks and mortar nor grass, but gaunt
clay, before whose tenacity the city has paused, uncertain whether
to " grade" or mount the obstinate barrier.
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Olmsted, Frederick Law. Journey through Texas, or, A saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier : with a statistical appendix, book, January 1, 1857; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth2407/m1/42/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.