"Estimate of the products, which descended the falls of the Ohio, at Louisville, in the year 1822: being the produce, 1st, of the whole State of Ohio (except the part bordering on Lake Erie); 2dly, of two-thirds of the State of Kentucky; 3dly, of one-half of the State of Indiana ; and 4thly, of a small part of the States of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

"There are many articles of Export not included in the above schedule, such as iron castings, salt, gunpowder, whitelead, and other manufactured articles of various descriptions, the amount

of which could not be correctly estimated for want of adequate data. The foregoing estimate presents, at one glance, a pretty correct view of the agricultural resources of this section of the country; and, when it is considered, at the same time, that probably not more than one-fifth of the soil embraced in this calculation is now under cultivation, we are furnished with some general data from which to estimate the ultimate agricultural capacity of this section of the country."

The above statement as well as the following table was politely furnished me by a gentleman with whom I became acquainted at Louisville.

A Table showing the name and tonnage of each steam-boat, employed on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in the year 1823, together with the place when, and the year in which, it was built.

Making in all seventy-nine steam-boats. Moreover the number of boats is rapidly increasing, as I saw new ones building at Cincinnati and at several other towns.

When I arrived at Louisville, the water was higher than it had been for some years, and in consequence, some of the largest steam-boats had ascended the rapids, which indeed, whenever there is a freshet, become almost imperceptible.

I had intended going straight on to Birkbeck's Settlement in the Illinois, but postponed this journey, on finding that I could first of all go up to Cincinnati in the "United States." This Leviathan of the western waters, is of 645 tons burden, and is worked by two very large and powerful engines, acting together so as to dispense with the

necessity of a fly-wheel. The accommodations on board were really superb; and the great size of the boat, added to the excellent construction of the engines, entirely prevented that tremulous and disagreeable motion, so common in small steam-boats.

The river, in consequence of the rain, presented a most noble appearance, being in many places nearly a mile wide. This majestic sheet of water was marked in the centre by a large black line of drift-wood, formed by quantities of fallen trees, logs, stumps, and branches: for, after a great fall of rain, the small streams and creeks overflow part of the neighbouring woods, and float off all the timber that has fallen, or that has been cut down. This drift wood coming into the Ohio, forms itself into a line in the most rapid of the stream; and whenever a steam-boat has to cross from one side of the river to the other, generally breaks one or two of the paddles.

Before leaving Louisville, I had been introduced to a Scotch gentleman, who had long been a resident at New Orleans, and who is one of the first merchants there. He formed one of the party on board, and I found him a most agreeable wellinformed man. He gave me, for instance, a very entertaining account of the island of St. Domingo, which he had visited during the reign of Christophe. This man, he said, though such a tyrant, was in private life extremely mild; and if the state of his dominions had been more settled, would