house where I lodged, the woods were on fire. It was supposed that the conflagration had been begun by some mischievous person, who had kindled the dry leaves, now strewed over the ground. In the evening, the glare of light extending along a ridge for a mile and a half, was astonishingly grand. Large decayed trees were converted into luminous columns of fire; when these fell the crashing noise was heard within doors. Fires in the woods usually excite alarm in their neighbourhood. People watch them by night, their rail fences and wooden habitations being in danger.
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Some parts of this neighbourhood were purchased twelve
or fourteen years ago. Then proximity to Chillicothe was
little regarded. The increased population and trade of
the town has now made it the market of almost every dis-
