Chapter IV: 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