1^ Mr Audubon on the Ohioi 



charge for his share of the contribution. Being challenged on 

 the subject, he candidly acknowledged it, and stated that he 

 considered his old charges sufficiently high, but that an English 

 sportsman having once stopped for a few days with him, laughed 

 at the modesty of his charge, and paid him double the amount. 

 To avoid being ridiculed by the English, he had from that time 

 modified his prices, with a view to acquire their good opinion. 

 This liberal Englishman proved to be a ship-chandler from 

 Capetown, who had contrived to escape for a week from behind 

 the counter. 



(To be continued.) 



The Ohio, By J. J. Audubon, Esq. 



Co render more pleasant the task, says Mr Audubon in his Or- 

 nithological Biography, which you have imposed upon yourself, 

 of following an author through the mazes of descriptive orni- 

 thology, permit me, kind reader, to relieve the tedium which 

 may be apt now and then to come upon you, by presenting you 

 \vith occasional descriptions of the scenery and manners of the 

 land which has furnished the objects that engage your atten- 

 tion. The natural features of that land are not less remarkable 

 than the moral characters of her inhabitants ; and I cannot find 

 a better subject with which to begin, than one of those magnifi- 

 cent rivers that roll the collected waters of her extensive terri- 

 tories to the ocean. 



When my wife, my eldest son (then an infant), and myself, 

 were returning from Pennsylvania to Kentucky, we found it 

 expedient, the waters being unusually low, to provide ourselves 

 with a skiff, to enable us to proceed to our abode at Henderson. 

 I purchased a large, commodious, and light boat of that deno- 

 mination. We procured a mattress, and our friends furnished 

 us with ready prepared viands. We had two stout Negro 

 rowers, and in this trim we left the village of Shippingport, in 

 expectation of reaching the place of our destination in a very 

 few days. It was in the month of October. The autumnal 

 tints already decorated the shores of that queen of rivers, the 



