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Rh veels as they paed with three cheers, and by firing a mall piece of ordnance from the banks." "The building and lading of is now conidered as an enterprize of the greatet importance in this part of the country. The lat (1802) there were launched from the hip-yard of Captain Devol, on the Mukingum river, five miles above its mouth, the hip ',' of 204 tons, owned by Benjamin Ives Gilman, Eq. and the brigantine ',' of 115 tons, owned by Charles Greene, Eq. merchants at Marietta. At the pring flood of the preent year, the chooner 'Indiana,' of 100 tons, the brig 'Marietta,' of 130 tons, and another of 150 tons, also built here, were launched and decended the river for New Orleans and the trade to the West Indies. Good judges of naval architecture have pronounced thee veels equal, in point of workmanship and materials, to the bet that have been built in America. The firmnes and great length of their planks, and the excellency of their timbers, (their frames being almost wholly compoed of black walnut, a wood which, if