GALLIPOLIS, a city of southern Ohio, U.S.A., on the Ohio river, loom. S.E. of Columbus; the county seat of Gallia county. It is served by the Hocking Valley, the New York Cen tral, and (at Gallipolis, West Virginia) the Baltimore and Ohio railways and by river steamers. The population was 6,070 in 1920 and 7,106 in 1930. The city is a shipping and trading centre for a rich agricultural and coal-mining region, and it has sundry manufacturing industries. A U.S. Marine hospital and a State hospital for epileptics are situated there. Gallipolis was settled in 1790 by colonists from France, who had received worthless deeds to lands in Ohio from the Scioto Land company. This com pany arranged in 1787 with the Ohio company for the use of 4,000,000ac., on which the Ohio company merely had an option. Its unbusiness-like methods and the dishonesty of its agents in France caused its collapse in 1790. Meanwhile I 5o,000ac. had been sold in France to prospective colonists, who in Oct. 1790, after a detention of two months at Alexandria, Va., arrived on the site of Gallipolis. In 1794 the attorney-general of the United States decided that all rights in the 4,000,000ac. were legally vested in the Ohio company, and in 1795 the Ohio company sold to the French settlers at $1.25 an acre the land they occupied and adjacent improved lots, and the United States granted to them 24,000ac. in the southern part of what is now Scioto county. Gallipolis was incorporated as a village in 1842, as a city in 1865.