Excerpt from Scioto Sketches: An Account of Discovery and Settlement of Scioto County, Ohio There is the charm of adventure in the story of an explorer. The nearer the pathway of the explorer may be to one's home, the more intense is the charm. Explor ers from France were the first white men to enter the Ohio Valley and descend the Ohio River. One of the points of unusual interest to them was the country about the mouth of the Scioto River. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.