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16 future of which he estimated to be far more hopeful than that of Pittsburg. From Wheeling he crossed Ohio by the State Road, built on Zane's Trace to Zanesville, Chillicothe, and Maysville, Kentucky. From Maysville, the route was by Lexington and Frankfort to Louisville. Thence he crossed the Ohio River and went, by way of Paoli and Washington (Indiana), to Vincennes. From here he visited Albion, in English Prairie, to which he gives the name "Boulton House Prairie." After a rather cursory examination of the Birkbeck settlement, Welby retraced his steps to the East, to which much of his book is devoted.

Read in connection with other foreign travellers, whose works we have published in the antecedent volumes of our series—the Michauxs, Cuming, Flower, Woods, and Flint—the journals of Faux and Welby form an interesting contrast, and in their sort a drastic corrective to what in the others is sometimes over-praise.

In the preparation of these two volumes for the press, the Editor has been assisted by Louise Phelps Kellogg, Ph.D., Edith Kathryn Lyle, Ph.D., and Mr. Archer Butler Hulbert.

R. G. T.

, December, 1904.