DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit:
Be it remembered, That on the first day of May, in the thirty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1810, Zadok Cramer, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country, through the States of Ohio and Kentucky; a Voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and a Trip through the Mississippi territory, and part of West Florida. Commenced at Philadelphia in the winter of 1807, and concluded in 1809. By F. Cuming. With Notes and an Appendix, containing some interesting Facts, together with a notice of an Expedition through Louisiana.
In conformity to an act of the congress of the United States, intituled, “An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.” And also to the act, entitled “An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.”
D. CALDWELL, clerk of
the district of Pennsylvania.
{iii} CONTENTS
OF EACH CHAPTER IN PART
| 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] |
PREFACE
The writer of the following tour would not trouble the reader with a Preface, did not some circumstances render it in a certain degree necessary.