TO THE WEST OF THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS, IN THE STATES OF Ohio, KENTUCKY, AND TENNESSEA, AND BACK TO CHARLESTON, BY THE UPPER CAROLINES; COMPRISING The most interesting Details on the present State of Agriculture, AND THE NATURAL PRODUCE OF THOSE COUNTRIES: TOGETHER WITH Particulars relative to the Commerce that exists between the abovementioned States, and those situated East of the Mountains and Low Louisiana, UNDERTAKEN, IN THE YEAR 1802, UNDER THE AUSPICES OF His Excellency M. CHAPTAL, Minister of the Interior, MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY AT PARIS; CORRES OF THE SEINE AND OISE. London: Printed by D. N. SHURY, Berwick Street, Sahe, FOR B. CROSBY AND CO. STATIONERS' COURT; AND J. P. HUGHES, WIGMORE STREET, CAVENDISH SQUARE 1805. CONTENTS CHAP. I Departure from Bourdeaux.-Arrival at Charleston.-Remarks upon the yellow fever.-A short description of the town of Charleston.-Observations upon several trees, natives of the old continent, reared in a botanic garden near the city CHAP. II 117 Departure from Charleston for New York.-A short description of the town.-Botanic excursions in New Jersey.-Remarks upon the quercus tinctoria, or black oak, and the nut trees of that country.-Departure from New York for Philadelphia.-Abode [vi] CHAP. III Departure from Philadelphia to the western country.-Communications by land in the United States.-Arrival at Lancaster.-Description of the town and its environs.-Departure. -Columbia.-Passage from Susquehannah, York, Dover, Carlisle.-Arrival at Shippensburgh.-Remarks upon the state of agriculture during the journey CHAP. IV Departure from Shippensburgh to Strasburgh.-Journey over the Blue Ridges.-New Species of rhododendrum.-Passage over the river Juniata.-Use of the cones of the magnolia acuminata.-Arrival at Bedford Court House.-Excesses to which the natives of that part of the country are addicted. Departure from Bedford.-Journey over Alleghany Ridge and Laurel Hill.-Arrival at West Liberty Town 125 132 141 CHAP. V Departure from West Liberty Town to go among the mountains in search of a shrub supposed to give good oil, a new species of azalea.-Ligonier Valley.-Coal Mines.-Greensburgh. -Arrival at Pittsburgh [vii] CHAP. VI Description of Pittsburgh.-Commerce of the Town and adjacent countries with New Orleans.-Construction of large vessels.-Description of the rivers Monongahela and Alleghany.-Towns situated on their banks.-Agriculture.— Maple sugar CHAP. VII Description of the Ohio.-Navigation of that river.—Mr. S. Craft. The object of his travels.-Remarks upon the state of Vermont 149 156 163 CHAP. VIII Departure from Pittsburgh for Kentucky.-Journey by land to Wheeling.-State of agriculture on the route.-West Liberty Town in Virginia.-Wheeling CHAP. IX Departure from Wheeling for Marietta.-Aspect of the banks of the Ohio.-Nature of the forests.-Extraordinary size of several kinds of trees [viii] CHAP. X Marietta. Ship building.-Departure for Gallipoli.-Falling in with a Kentucky boat.-Point Pleasant.-The Great Kenhaway CHAP. XI Gallipoli.-State of the French colony Scioto.-Alexandria at the mouth of the Great Scioto.-Arrival at Limestone in Kentucky 168 172 177 182 CHAP. XII Fish and shells of the Ohio.-Inhabitants on the banks of the river.-Agriculture.-American emigrant.-Commercial intelligence relative to that part of the United States CHAP. XIII Limestone.-Route from Limestone to Lexinton.-Washington. CHAP. XIV Lexinton.-Manufactories established there.-Commerce.-Dr. [ix] CHAP. XV 188 195 199 Departure from Lexinton.-Culture of the vine at Kentucky.Passage over the Kentucky and Dick Rivers.-Departure for Nasheville.-Mulder Hill.-Passage over Green River CHAP. XVI Passage over the Barrens, or Meadows.-Plantations upon the road. The view they present.-Plants discovered there.Arrival at Nasheville 206 215 CHAP. XVII General observations upon Kentucky.-Nature of the soil.- CHAP. XVIII Distinction of Estates.-Species of Trees peculiar to each of them. CHAP. XIX Different kinds of culture in Kentucky.-Exportation of colonial produce.-Peach trees.-Taxes 222 228 237 |