Mass., and the other at Hartford, Conn.--arrived
after a difficult passage through the mountains at Simrall's
Ferry (now West Newton), on the Youghiogheny, the middle of
February, 1788. A company of boat-builders and other mechanics
had preceded them a month, yet it was still six weeks more
before the little flotilla could leave: "The Union Gally of 45
tons burden; the Adelphia ferry boat, 3 tons; & three log
canoes of different sizes. No. of pioneers, 48." The winter had
been one of the severest known on the Upper Ohio, and the
spring was cold, wet, and backward; so that amid many hardships
it was the seventh of April before they arrived at the
Muskingum and founded Marietta, named for the unfortunate Marie
Antoinette, for the love of France was still strong in the
breasts of Revolutionary veterans.--R. G. T.

[10] Perhaps there never was a more strange compound
derivative term than this. Being situated opposite to the mouth
of Licking, the name was made expressive of its locality, by
uniting the Latin word _os_, (the mouth) with the Greek, _anti_
(opposite) and the French, _ville_, (a town,) and prefixing to
this union from such different sources, the initial (_L_) of
the river. The author of this word, must have been good at
invention, and in these days of _town making_ could find ample
employment for his talent.

[11] In 1788, John Cleves Symmes--uncle of he of "Symmes's
Hole"--the first United States judge of the Northwest
Territory, purchased from congress a million acres of land on
the Ohio, lying between the two Miami Rivers. Matthias Denman
bought from him a square mile at the eastern end of the grant,
"on a most delightful high bank" opposite the Licking, and--on
a cash valuation for the land of two hundred dollars--took in
with him as partners Robert Patterson and John Filson. Filson
was a schoolmaster, had written the first history of Kentucky,
and seems to have enjoyed much local distinction. To him was
entrusted the task of inventing a name for the settlement which
the partners proposed to plant here. The outcome was
"Losantiville," a pedagogical hash of Greek, Latin, and French:
_L_, for Licking; _os_, Greek for mouth; _anti_, Latin for
opposite; _ville_, Fre