Book/Printed Material Travels in America performed in 1806, for the purpose of exploring the rivers Alleghany, Monongahela, Ohio, and Mississippi, and ascertaining the produce and condition of their banks and vicinity. Volume 3

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    Travels in America     TRAVEL IN AMERICA, PERFORMED IN 1806, For the Purpose of exploring the RIVERS ALLEGHANY, MONONGAHELA, OHIO, AND MISSISSIPPI, AND ASCERTAINING THE PRODUCE AND CONDITION OF THEIR BANKS AND VICINITY. BY THOMAS ASHE,…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     F353 A8 224612 15
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    Travels in America     TRAVELS IN AMERICA. LETTER XXX. Jefferson's Town and Canal—Clarksville—general view of the river two hundred and seventy-two miles down—Henderson Town—Diamond Island. Mouth of the Wabash, Indiana Territory, September, 1806. PREVIOUSLY to leaving…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     2 and opulence, being now employed in forming a canal, by which navigators may avoid all dangers, and proceed down the river at all seasons of the year. I surveyed the line…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     3 Kentucky shore. All I could learn respecting it, was, that it received its name from the number of salines on its banks, which impregnate its waters, when in a low state,…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     4 of the waters are criminals, who either escaped from, or were apprehensive of public justice. On descending the river, they fix on some inviting spot, without ever looking after the proprietor…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     5 rising up and above the rest; and some are so low, interwoven, and contrasted, that they form an agreeable diversity of hills and dales. From several points of view, the opposite…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     6 black mould to a bright yellow clay. In the space of eight miles below this creek, I passed a chain of islands, six in number, which added much to the effect…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     7 It is navigated by bateaux at one season, and by flat-bottomed boats through the year. The lands are healthy, and inhabited by a stout race of people. Nearer the Ohio it…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     8 the distance from the mouth of Green River to Henderson, by water is twenty-five miles, yet by land it is only about seven. Henderson consists of about twenty houses, and inhabited…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     9 river. The shades, views, and perspective of an island so situated, clothed with aromatic shrubs, crowned with timber, surrounded by water, bounded by an extensive and delightful country, are too numerous,…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     10 often visited by herds of deer, which swim from the main land to enjoy its fragrant herbage and luxuriant pasture. The Wabash enters on the Indian or N.W. side. It is…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     11 carrying-place, which is nine miles from the Miami village. This village stands on Miami River, which empties into the S.W. part of Lake Eric. The communication between Detroit and the Illinois…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     12 LETTER XXXI. Remarkable cave—Vengeance of the Illinois on the Kentuckyans—Wilson's gang—particular description of the cave—hyeroglyphics. Cave in the Rock. Ohio Bank, Sept. 1806. I HAD descended but twenty-two miles from the…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     13 render the cave an object truly delightful and worthy of the most minute attention. I resolved to explore it, though it bore the reputation of being the residence of a band…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     14 double that number. Several fell on both sides, and the victory being doubtful till the Illinois, annoyed by the distance. and length of the combat, rushed upon the enemy with lifted…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     15 “Tell your wise men, that the Illinois have glutted their vengeance, and that their spirit is satisfied and appeased. On the borders of the lake we will bury the hatchet. Woe…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     16 the cave became possessed by a party of Kentuckyans, called “Wilson's Gang.” Wilson, in the first instance, brought his family to the cave, fitted it up as a spacious dwelling, and…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     17 and there sell their lading for cash, which was to be conveyed to the cave by land through the states of Tinassee and Kentucky; the party returning with it being instructed…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     18 by the mouth of the cavern, and that he had agents at the Natehiz and New Orleans, of presumed respectability, who converted his assignments into cash, though they knew the goods…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     19 and arms, and entered the gloomy and spacious fabric of nature. After meditating a few moments on the general outline and grandeur of the scene, I descended to particulars, and found…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     20 in the Indian manner; and some of them represented animals which bear no resemblance to any I have ever heard of or seen. While occupied in this research, I discovered an…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     21 servant, who insisted on following me, while Cuff remained as a centinel below, ready to fire a signal on any person's approach. With much difficulty I strained through the aperture, which…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     22 to be cut out and wrought into innumerable figures and ornaments, not unlike those of a gothic cathedral. These were formed by a thousand perpetual distillations of the coldest and most…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     23 cave he had been examining, and there I had the horror to discover the objects of his apprehension: they consisted of human bones, some in a promiscuous heap, and some forming…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     24 the remains it would appear that upwards of sixty persons must have perished in the cave, either by the hand of the assassin, or from want, as it is possible that…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     25 paces before I could recover my equilibrium. The light extinguished; the echo of the shot again rebounded, “through the long sounding aisle and fretted vault,” and all the dæmons of the…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     26 art. The gloom visibly receded from the rising light; the columns displayed their ponderous magnitude: the roof exhibited its ample dome, and the whole glittered with distillations, like the firmament when…
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    Travels in America     27 checked every other proceeding of nature, and made an awful pause in her operation and works. That the shells were introduced into the cave by a rising deluge, or by man…
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    Travels in America     28 I had advanced, however, but a few steps when the scene changed. I entered an apartment of an indefinite space of gloom. No pillars supported the dome: no chrystal stars illumined…
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    Travels in America     29 I emerged; the lightning broke through it with such inconceivable rapidity and eclat, that, expecting to hear the crack and rattle of thunder every instant, I ordered my people to follow…
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    Travels in America     30 orb, biting his tail—a Viper—a Vulture.—Buzzards tearing out the bowels of a prostrate man—a Panther held by the ears by a Child—a Crocodile—several Trees and Shrubs—a Fox—a curious kind of Hydra…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     31 men and women, not naked, but clothed in a manner which, bespoke in the Indian, much of the costume of Greece and Rome. You must at once perceive, that a person…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     32 the Egyptians long before they were common to any other people. The Grecians, in the days of Solon, Pythagoras, Herodotus, and Plato, acquired in Egypt all that knowledge of nature which…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     33 share in any part of the profound sciences;—therefore Alexander was displeased at Aristotle for publishing in a vulgar language, some of his treatises which contained an account of the curiosities of…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     34 2. The Moon denoted the next most beautiful object in the creation, and was worshipped for her own peculiar usefulness, and more particularly for supplying the place of the departed sun.…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     35 ends where it at first began. I believe the ancients gave it this import or meaning. 4. The Viper, the most venomous of all creatures, was the emblem of the Devil,…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     36 over oppression and vice, or perhaps it bore the Greek meaning of a wretch encompassed with difficulties which he vainly attempts to avoid. 8. The Crocodile, from its power and might,…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     37 joy;—and the lilly, of beauty, &c. But what those in the cave imply, it is not possible to determine, as nothing of their character can be deduced from the manner they…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01
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    Travels in America     38 could assuage, and which ought never to be suffered to reside in the human breast. It may bear some other signification also, which I have not divination to find out. 12.…
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    • Date: 1808-01-01