nch for city--Licking-opposite-City, or
City-opposite-Licking, whichever is preferred. This was in
August; the Fates work quickly, for in October poor Filson was
scalped by the Indians in the neighborhood of the Big Miami,
before a settler had yet been enticed to Losantiville. But the
survivors knew how to "boom" a town; lots were given away by
lottery to intending actual settlers, who moved thither late in
December or early in January, and in a few months Judge Symmes
was able to write that "it populates considerably."

A few weeks previous to the planting of Losantiville, a party
of men from Redstone had settled at the mouth of the Little
Miami, about where the suburb of California now is; and a
few weeks later, a third colony was started by Symmes
himself at North Bend, near the Big Miami, at the western
extremity of his grant, and this the judge wished to make the
capital of the new Northwest Territory. At first it was a race
between these three colonies. A few miles below North Bend,
Fort Finney had been built in 1785-86, hence the Bend had at
first the start; but a high flood dampened its prospects, the
troops were withdrawn from this neighborhood to Louisville,
and in the winter of 1789-90 Fort Washington was built at
Losantiville by General Harmar. The neighborhood of the new
fortress became in the ensuing Indian war the center of the
district. To Losantiville, with its fort, came Arthur St.
Clair, the new governor of the Northwest Territory (January,
1790), and making his headquarters here, laid violent hands
on Filson's invention, at once changing the name to Cincinnati,
in honor of the Society of the Cincinnati, of which the new
official was a prominent member--"so that," Judge Symmes
sorrowfully writes, "Losantiville will become extinct." It
was a winter of suffering for the Western Cincinnati. The
troops were in danger of starvation, and three professional
hunters were contracted with to supply them with game, till
corn could come in from Columbia and other older settlements
on the river.--R. G. T.

[12] Col. Josiah Harmar's militia were from Virginia, Kentucky,
and Pennsylvania. He left Fort Washington (Cincinnati), October 3.
At this time the Miami India