Category: Travel Writing
A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement.
We started, and soon passed an island where we got a hard rap on some rocks; we now found we had lost our pilot with Mr. Ferris; both our new men were much intoxicated, and this...
16. LETTER IVSome of my letters, written in 1819, appeared through the medium of the press; and some of the English Reviewers, after a candid criticism, observed, that they should be glad to...
5. volume ix of our series, note 61.--ED.Cincinnati is a very fine town, and elegantly (not only in the American acceptation of the word) situated on the banks of the river, nearly opposite to Licking Creek, which runs...
17. volume iii of our series, note 70.--ED.{38} 25th. We travelled, a hilly country, to Trap town, a very small place, mostly of log-houses. From near Trap town, to the Potomac river, it still continued rocky. We passed...
12. LETTER IIAFTER many interruptions I removed from Lexington to this place, at which we arrived on the 2nd of July, spending in our way a week at _Harmony_, that wonder of the west.
3. volume ix of our series, note 4.--ED.In the year 1811 and 1812 the part of the country, in which I lived, was placed under a _new sort of law_; or, in other words, it was placed out of the protection of the old law...
2. Volume XLETTERS FROM LEXINGTON [June 25, 1819] AND THE ILLINOIS [August 16, 1819], containing a Brief Account of the English Settlement in the Latter Territory, and a Refutation of the...
18. volume iii, p. 33 and note 15.--ED.After breakfast we entered into an agreement with Messrs. Knox and Pemberton, of Wheeling, for the conveyance of ourselves and luggage to Louisville, in Kentucky, 600 miles, for...
10. volume iii of our series, note 45.--ED.They are building a steam-boat at Wheeling, which is to go, they say, 1800 miles up the Missouri river. The wheels are made to work in the stern of the boat, so as not to come i...
11. LETTER IIT is natural you should have made those enquiries of me which you did in your last, and which it shall be my business to answer in their respective order.
13. LETTER IMy whole family, I think enjoy, since we have been here, much better health than in England, and we have enjoyed the fine Indian summer, which has lasted full two months, of mos...
6. volume iii of our series, note 39.--ED.[32] The first macadamized road in Kentucky, and the first to receive state aid, was the Maysville and Lexington turnpike. It was begun in 1829, the state subscribing for $25,00...
21. volume ix of our series, note 70.--Ed.23d. At dawn the fishers offered us some cat-fish, of between thirty and forty pounds weight each, for 25 cents a piece, but as we had a store of provisions we did not purchase...
14. LETTER III HAVE not written many letters to my friends in England, because I was determined not to state any thing on presumption, or of mere opinion, but only matters of fact, which mus...
9. volume ii.--HULME.Nature has done her part; nothing is left wanting but machines to enable the people of Ohio to keep their flour at home, instead of exporting it, at their own expense to support...
23. volume ix of our series, note 128.--ED.30th. Both sides of the river more hilly, and but little land brought into culture. In the forenoon we passed an island eighteen or twenty miles above Louisville; the river much...
19. volume ix of our series, note 89.--ED.18th. Passed the Little Sciota, a small stream of Ohio. At noon we reached the town of Portsmouth, in Ohio, at the mouth of the Big Sciota;[110] a considerable stream, said to b...
4. volume v of our series; Vevay, note 164. Croghan's _Journals_, volume i_June 8th._--Came to Wheeling at about 12 o'clock. It is a handsome place, and of considerable note. Stopped about an hour. Found flour to be about 4 to 5 dollars a barrel; fres...
15. LETTER IIIAs to the settlement in general, I consider it most prosperous, making, comparing it with many new ones, the most rapid strides to comfort and prosperity: our little town, now t...
8. volume iv of our series, note 145.--ED.Nothing remarkable, that I can see, as to the locality of this, town of _New Lancaster_; but, the name, alas! it brought to my recollection the horrid deeds done at _Old Lancast...
20. volume iii of our series, note 23.--ED.21st. Passed Ripley, a new town of Ohio: it seems likely to thrive.[115] A gentleman who had joined us at Maysville, and my eldest son, went on shore near this place. My son pur...
22. volume v of our series, note 164.--ED.28th. We landed at Port William,[123] Kentucky, a small place, and procured some very excellent bread. As we proceeded slowly I landed on the Indiana side, and went to two or th...
7. volume iv of our series, note 142.--ED.I had some conversation with Governor Worthington on the subject of domestic manufactures, and was glad to find he is well convinced of the necessity of, or at least of the grea...
1. Volume XA Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and...