volume iii of our series: Limestone, note 23; Paris, note 29. F. A.

Michaux’s _Travels_, volume iii of our series: Washington, note 37; May’s Lick, note 38; Millersburg, note 38. Cuming’s _Tour_, volume iv of our series: Blue Licks, note 117.--ED.

[64] The supply of specie in the Western country had always been inadequate. Until the numerous state banks began to flood the country with paper money, about the second decade of the century, barter was regularly employed. Flint was in the West when the financial stringency that followed the War of 1812-15 was beginning to be felt in that region, and the reaction against the worthless state banks had set in. See _post_; also McMaster, _History of the United States_, iv, pp. 484-487.--ED.