View of the City of Cleveland, Ohio, from the Lake

In the early part of the year 1800, there was just one family residing in this place; its present population is about 20,000. A small part of the city lies on the Cuyahoga river, where the land is but little elevated above the level of the lake, but it rises by a steep ascent to a level of some eighty feet above the lake, and on which gravelly plain this city is chiefly built. The location is one of the finest on Lake Erie--a view from it of the shipping and steamboats in the port, and leaving and entering the harbor, and the numerous vessels under sail on the lake, affords a prospect varied and beautiful. So extensive is the lake that it has all the grandeur of an ocean view. The harbor of Cleveland is one of the best on the lake, being spacious and safe and sufficiently easy of access. Cleveland was incorporated as a city in 1836, and owes its name to Moses Cleveland, formerly of Canterbury, Ct., who directed the surveying party that first laid it out. Like all ourWestern cities, it is hourly increasing in wealth and the number of its population, and bids fair to be, in time, a second Cincinnati.