Scioto, a beautiful river of Ohio, rises in the north-west portion of the state, and flows east and then south, past Columbus and Chillicothe, to its junction at Portsmouth with the river Ohio. It is nearly 300 miles long, and from its mouth to Columbus feeds the Ohio and Erie Canal.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 233
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