Show the black swamp ile the binck extending from the sandusky to the mounce river 4 ind and covering tin nn of over miles tit in length and tin nn average of forty in width was entirely hy by early curly settlers in northern ahlo by un tin inclan treaty the united states government acquired a strip of land to make it rond road through tile siva till hut but nothing further thun tile tho preliminary surveys being shed tile alio land band was waa litter inter transferred to the and the first rond road was completed in 1827 in accordance with n state law liny passed in 1859 a n system of public ditches wits was introduced which drained the swai rip and transformed it into it i fertile agricultural region detroit news newa |