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^he waters of (he Mississippi and Ohio will be low, Hind the ascent of steam-bears impracticable* and je. haps, it would not be advisable for yoo (an invalid) to venture within the impure atmosphere of 'Orleans at an earlier season, that is, before th*frosts t»»ve commenced, and a crowded steam-boat, fa hot. vreath**r„ mutt be a very-unpleasant situation. On fWa eaievMtioB’ the only route is the oldooe by Bat-“unuina; bytbajMmpthetoropike With, X hope, be cowpieted, am) then ibe ondertakiog Will »f»t be aotremebflqus. The Way must be to get a single-horse waggon and a horse; there'are some di»ht things made oh purpose, and juit sbited to the --otcaefeva,. eu£*tly~patated and ufed for visiting wagw *g°n*. firthis way may be taken a tiruuk of clothes,* atm provisions ; what other thirigx we have most only -•go by the toad waggons. If the weather prove •voiWabt*. we may make Meals a-day from our provisions in the waggon, and ftfUtbird at ike tavern whero we pot op for the night j Of this there will befor further considersifo*. I h$re vlteftdycot trees nearly ha If sufficient for building a log cabin of •the size I have mentioned, and coold, in a week, fell enough to complete it throughout; but as I shall want my neighbours* assistance to the raising, f can-*• vu»f now refuse to assist then) when.: they require it. Another-house we most have* but f do, not consider It pMaibl^tw raise one previous to, ypbr- arrival in -ahj# couutry. - The log bah in will -be but a sorry , place to bring you to; bet you will ba'quiteas well «ff as ybor neighbours, add it shall PetM loiig before wehavea better, cither of brfefc offramed... j* l ean dig good brick-earthon ourvlpt, and , fcave^alab a good' beil if limestone, an acquisition ■many of Ay neighbours will' be without, I have tttn in tdfflh fytt; force about something or other,• that the cares of Europe have tkken but little hold of me—they appear, as Mr. Bifkbeck observes, of as j little importance to ut as a dream. I cannot well-leave this place tilt the beginning of June, after •whichI shall start for England with all expedition, .-to bring yoo all over to this coontry. One of my •Urn jobs will beta plant a peach and apple orchard ; this most be done in February. Apple-trees ftom -seeds will bear in seven years, and generally produces good fruit without-grafting. I intend now to pro. -cure a quantity of grafted tnes, same .of. which will •bear iss three years ; aod to-morrow shall put in a inconsiderable quantity 6f apple-seed and peach-stones - wkieh Will -in time make, a livge plantation: peach ■trees will produce fruit the third year after planting the stones, mod plentifully from the fourth. The price* of-goodi here are astonishingly high—English manefacUired goods arO double, aud in some places *iriple the English priced Almost every thing woold .pay wyil to living over, admitting the doty and car-.•riage, except bulky fatoiture. Sugar, though com--iog only frouaQvlearo, is 25 cents, or I3fd, per lb. j .linen, caltofl^ sad woolfougoods, moeetban dooble; -haberdashery almost four times higher than in Eng. •land. Muchpoverty teems to exist among the peo-jls here, yet tto thing' like distress. The people are not provident, aod spend too much time io driuking ■whiskey; this whiskey is the curse of the nation.—*1 kuowroaeyptantaturns of five or six years’ standing,, where not as apple tree has beeu planted ; and many booses where there n scarce a seat to sit on, •end the fohebKaitts not tntfoslrioos enough to make * eiool j jrut-fbese'Same nreokavetbur or five-horses, worth from 40 to 100 dollars eadh, a number of •caws, and two =©r three hundred bogs. These old OeUlers willwon 'begin to move oflr; many of them talk much-of Had itiver, on the Missouri territory. As settlements increase here the range for cattle is destroyed, end -deer will grow scarce: when this is 1 -the case these soieu cannot live; ihey know this, yet •welcome os amongtbeav, and all seem pleased with us as neighbours. Most of rhembare been frontier men all their -lives, and always will remain so, still 1 •retreatingas population advances. We have no.In- 1 dians within 200'miles of os ; I luive not seen one 1 since leaving Haiti more. Duet and turkeys are at 1 present abundant, kot cannot longremam so. There 1 are wolves, and a bear is by cKancn. foui\d by the . hunters :. neither «f these are dangerous. As settle- 1 tnenis increase, every thing detrimental to human { comfort will decline. ' 1ft- juc. -3.—An interruption prevented my finish- i ing.th»s last week. -1 have now got all my house logs cut, and hope to have it raised on Tuesday or Wed- lt;nesday netI* Mr. Dunk had so increase of family in 1 (ho early pert of this week of another sou: he has a J brother in Eogland, whose intention Is to come over with bis family at coo* os convenient, fSavetll the f plomh-stooes you meet with of all kinds, also the seeds of pears: English seeds of most kiods are I wanted here.- Most of the old settlers are from * Kentucky : there, exists a considerable jealousy be- s tween them and the Yvokeys ; they receive the Eng- 1 lish among them in a much more friendly manner lt;than they do the New Englanders : the latter are an 1 industrious class of people, and spend but little time 1 in hunting. The whole carcass of a deer, without the skio, .can he purchased for a dollar.. I shall uot lt;neglect nay opportunity of procuring fruit-trees of 1 every sort tbal-is twbe met- with : grspe vinetarero 1 be met with at Harmony. If you have anoppor- ( turrit* lo get any berries of the yew and holly, do * so; I bast not seen either of these in this country, 1 and think they would do well for live fences. An- lt;ether Englishmao.be* entered half a section of land 1 between us and M*v Maid loir, who appears a social, 1 friendly fflkn- Far haps I may speculate in another ( quarter section before I write again, which shall not c be long.”
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London Statesman
London, Middlesex, GB
Tue, Apr 20, 1819
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