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{x} CHAP. XX

Particulars relative to the manners of the inhabitants of Kentucky.—Horses
and cattle.—Necessity of giving them salt.—Wild
Horses caught in the Plains of New Mexico.—Exportation
of salt provisions 243

[CHAP.] XXI

Nasheville.—Commercial details.—Settlement of the Natches 250

CHAP. XXII

Departure for Knoxville.—Arrival at Fort Blount.—Remarks
upon the drying up of the Rivers in the Summer.—Plantations
on the road.—Fertility of the soil.—Excursions in a
canoe on the river Cumberland 255

CHAP. XXIII

Departure from Fort Blount to West Point, through the Wilderness.—Botanical
excursions upon Roaring River.—Description
of its Banks.—Saline productions found there.—Indian
Cherokees.—Arrival at Knoxville 258

{xi} CHAP. XXIV

Knoxville.—Commercial intelligence.—Trees that grow in the
environs.—Converting some parts of the Meadows into
Forests.—River Nolachuky.—Greensville.—Arrival at
Jonesborough 265

CHAP. XXV

General observations on the state of Tennessea.—Rivers Cumberland
and Tennessea.—What is meant by East Tennessea
or Holston, and West Tennessea or Cumberland.—First
settlements in West Tennessea.—Trees natives of that
country 271

CHAP. XXVI

Different kinds of produce of West Tennessea.—Domestic manufactories
for cottons encouraged by the Legislature of this
State.—Mode of letting out Estates by some of the Emigrants 276