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LETTER VIII

Leave Portsmouth—Digression on Economical Travelling—Chillicothe—Progress
of a Scotch Family—Game—Trees
and Shrubs—Rolled Pieces of Primitive Rocks—Implements—Antiquities—Organic
Remains—Missouri
and Illinois—Paper Currency 114


LETTER IX

Lexington—Paper Currency—Bankers—Menials—Habits—Prices
of Live Stock—Provisions, &c.—Slavery, and
its Effects—Recrimination against Illiberal Reflections—Descend
the Ohio to Cincinnati—Occurrences and Reflections 132


LETTER X

Cincinnati—Weather—Descend the Ohio to the Falls of the
Ohio—Taverns and Accommodation 149


LETTER XI

Morals and Manners—Education—Generosity—The President
of the United States 165


LETTER XII

On Emigration—The Prospects of Emigrants—Inconveniences—The
Method of Laying out and Disposing of
Public Lands 173


LETTER XIII

Comparative Advantages of Different Parts of the United
States—Temperature at Philadelphia and Cincinnati—Reflections
on Slave-Keeping 181


LETTER XIV

Lawyers—Doctors—Clergy—Mechanics—Justices of the
Peace—Anecdotes—Punishments—Reflections 194