Chapter I

Commencement of journey--Schuylkill bridge--Schuylkill
river--Downingstown--Brandywine creek--Pequea creek--New
Holland--Conestoga creek and bridge--Lancaster 25

CHAP. II

Elizabethtown--Susquehannah river--Harrisburgh 33

CHAP. III

Conestoga massacre--Carlisle and Dickinson college 42

CHAP. IV

Shippensburgh--Strasburgh--Horse valley 49

CHAP. V

Fannetsburgh--Juniata--Bloody run--Bedford 55

CHAP. VI

Allegheny mountains--Somerset--A murder 61

CHAP. VII

Laurel and Chesnut hills--Greensburgh--Pittsburgh 70

CHAP. VIII

Pittsburgh--Lawyers--Clergymen 76

CHAP. IX

Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers 87

CHAP. X

Georgetown--Little Beaver creek 100

CHAP. XI

Steubenville--Charlestown 106

CHAP. XII

Warren--Wheeling--Canton 111

CHAP. XIII

Little and Big Grave creeks--Monuments 114

CHAP. XIV

Muskingum--Marietta--Fortifications 120

CHAP. XV

Little Kenhawa--Blennerhasset’s island 126

CHAP. XVI

Little and Big Hockhocking--Belleville 130

CHAP. XVII

Le Tart’s falls--Graham’s station 135

CHAP. XVIII

Point Pleasant--Battle--Dunmore’s campaign 140

{iv} CHAP. XIX

Galliopolis--Green’s bottom--Hanging rock 147

CHAP. XX

Big Guiandot--Great Sandy--Snakes 153

CHAP. XXI

French Grant--Little Sciota--Portsmouth 156

CHAP. XXII

Sciota--Alexandria--Salt-works 161

CHAP. XXIII

Brush creek--Manchester--Maysville 165

CHAP. XXIV

Washington, K.--May’s and Blue licks--Salt furnaces 170

CHAP. XXV

Nicholasville--Millersburgh--Massacre 176

CHAP. XXVI

Lexington 181

CHAP. XXVII

Leesburgh--Frankfort 189

CHAP. XXVIII

Paris--Frank Bird--Hospitality 196

CHAP. XXIX

Commence a journey from Maysville through the state of Ohio
to Pittsburgh 201

CHAP. XXX

Bainbridge--Arrival at Chilicothe 208

CHAP. XXXI

The Sciota--Chilicothe--Monuments 215

CHAP. XXXII

Hockhocking--New Lancaster--Zanesville 219

CHAP. XXXIII

Wills’s creek--Cambridge--Beymer’s 226

CHAP. XXXIV

St. Clairsville--Indian Wheeling 230

CHAP. XXXV

Little Wheeling--Alexandria or Hardscramble 234

CHAP. XXXVI

Washington, Penn.--Canonsburgh--Pittsburgh 238

CHAP. XXXVII

Pittsburgh--Panorama around it 242

CHAP. XXXVIII

Descends the Ohio again--Columbia, Newport, Cincinnati,
Port Williams, Louisville, falls 255

{v} CHAP. XXXIX

Blue river--Horse machinery boat 261

CHAP. XL

Green river--Henderson--Cotton machine 265

CHAP. XLI

Wabash river, Shawanee town, Rocking cave 269

CHAP. XLII

Cumberland river, Tennessee, Fort Massac 273

CHAP. XLIII

Mississippi, New Madrid, Little Prairie 279

CHAP. XLIV

Indian warriours, their manners and customs 284

CHAP. XLV

Fort Pike, Chickasaw Indians, Fort Pickering 289

CHAP. XLVI

Settlements of Arkansas and White river 295

CHAP. XLVII

Grand lake, Anecdote of a Carolinean 300

CHAP. XLVIII

Walnut Hills, Fort M’Henry, Bayou Pierre 305

CHAP. XLIX

Commence a tour by land, Cole’s creek, Greenville 310

CHAP. L

Washington, Natchez, Mississippi territory 318

CHAP. LI

Homochito, Fort Adams, Pinkneyville 326

CHAP. LII

Enter West Florida, Thomson’s creek 331

CHAP. LIII

Baton Rouge, Spanish governour, Mrs. O’Brien’s 339

CHAP. LIV

Remarks on the climate, soil, manners, face of the country,
productions, &c. 347

The description of the Mississippi continued from Bayou
Pierre to New Orleans--Thence a sea voyage to
Philadelphia, by another hand 354