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172 THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. a and Nebraska. Itis distant 185 miles from Buffalo, 135 miles from Columbus, 107 miles from Toledo, and 144 miles from Pittsburgh by railroad route ; 120 miles from Detroit by steamboat route. It contains a county Court House and Jail, City Hall; Uv 8: Custom House and Post Office building ; a Theatre ; a Library As- sociation, with a public reading-room ; 2 Medical Colleges, 2 Orphan. Asylaums, 35 Churches of different denominations ; 4 Banks, a Sav- ings' Bank, and 2 Insurance Companies ; also, numerous large manu- facturing companies, embracing Iron and copper works, ship-building, etc.; Gas works, Water works, and two City Railroad Companies. The stores and warehouses are numerous, and many of them well built. It now boasts of 50,000 inhabitants, and is rapidly increasing in numbers and wealth. The Lake Superior trade is a source of great advantage and profit, while the other lake traffic, together with the facilities afforded by railroads and canals, makes Cleveland one of the favored cities bordering on the Inland Seas of America. Buack River, 28 miles from Cleveland, is a small village with a. good harbor, where is a ship yard and other manufacturing estab- lishments. . Vermituion, 10 miles farther on the line of the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, is a place of considerable trade, euetod at the mouth of the river of the same name. Huron, Ohio, 50 miles from Cleveland and 10 miles from Sandusky, is situated at the mouth of Huron River, which affords a good harbor. It contains several churches, 15 or 20 stores, several warehouses, and about 2,000 inhabitants. The islands lying near the head of Lake Erie, off Sandusky, are Kelley's Island, North Bass, Middle Bass, and South Bass islands, besides several smaller islands, forming altogether a handsome group. Kelley's Island, the largest and most important, is famous for its grape culture, and has become a place of summer resort by the citizens of Ohio and other States. On the north side of South Bass Island, lies the secure harbor of Put-in- Bay, made celebrated by being the rendezvous of Commodore Perry's flotilla before and after the decisive battle of Lake Erie, which resulted in the capture of the entire British fleet.