Neville, in Clermont County, Ohio, was settled by John Gregg in 1795.
The "Helen Mar" steamboat (88 tons) was built at Cincinnati in 1832; it was reported as being out of commission in 1837.
Moscow, Clermont County, Ohio, was laid out by Owen Davis (1816); and Point Pleasant, five miles farther down the river, in the same county, was platted in the same year by Joseph Jackson for its proprietor, Henry Ludlow.
For New Richmond, see Flint's Letters, in our volume ix, p. 148, note 70.—Ed.
[73] For the founding of Cincinnati, see Cuming's Tour, in our volume iv, p. 256, note 166.—Ed.
[74] For Big Bone Lick and the remains of the mammoth found there, see Croghan's Journals, in our volume i, p. 135, note 104.—Ed.
[75] In Ferussac's "Bulletin des Sciences," 1831, there is a notice of a colossal animal, sixty feet long, lately discovered there, and the whole story was invented, merely to attract visitors. In Silliman's American Journal (Vol. xx. No. 2, July, 1831, page 370), there is a correct description of these bones, in refutation of the preceding statement.—Maximilian.
[76] On the early history of Louisville and the Falls of the Ohio, see Croghan's Journals in our volume i, p. 136, note 106.—Ed.
[77] Portland was laid out in 1814 for the proprietor, William Lytle; it was incorporated in 1834, and annexed to Louisville in 1837.
The "Water Witch" (120 tons) was built at Nashville in 1831, being sunk near Plaquemine, Louisiana, two years later.—Ed.