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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