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THOMPSON'S COAST PILOT. 173 \ % SANDUSKY, '"' THE BAY CITY," Capital of Erie Co., Ohio, is a port of entry and a place of consi- derable trade. It is advantageously situated on Sandusky Bay, three miles from Lake Erie, in N, dm di~ 2)', W long 82° 45', The bay i is about 20 miles long, and five or six miles in width, form- ing a capacious and excellent harbor, into which steamers and vessels of all sizes can enter with safety. The average depth of ~ water is from ten*to twelve feet. The city is built on a bed of limestone, producing a good building material. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants, a court-house and jail, eight churches, two banks, several well-kept hotels, and a number of large stores and manufacturing establishments of different kinds. 'This is the ter- minus of the Sandusky, Dayton, and Cincinnati Railroad, 153 miles to Dayton, and the Sandusky, Mansfield, and Newark Rail- road, 116 miles in length. The Cleveland and Toledo Railread, northern division, also terminates at Sandusky. TOLEDO, One of the most favored cities of the lakes, is situated on the Mau- mee River, four miles from its mouth, and ten miles from the Turtle Island Light, at the outlet of the Maumee Bay into Lake Erie. The harbor is good, and the navigable channel from Toledo of sufficient depth for all steamers or sail vessels navigating the lakes. 'Toledo is the eastern terminus of the Wabash and Erie canal, running through the Maumee and Wabash valleys, and communicating with the Ohio River at Evansville, a distance of 474 miles; also of the Miami and Erie canal, which branches from the above canal, 68 miles west of Toledo, and runs southwardly through the Miami valley in Western Ohio, and communicates with the Ohio River at Cincinnati, forming - together the longest line of canal navigation in the United States. The railroads diverging from Toledo are the Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad, running through the southern coun- ties of Michigan and the northern counties of Indiana, and making its western terminus at Chicago, Illinois, at a distance of 243 miles ; the Air Line Railroad, running due west from Toledo, through North- western Ohio and the northern counties of Indiana to Goshen, a dis- tance of 110 miles, where it connects with the Northern Indiana