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gives it Life, the Natural situation is a handsome 

 One, on a high Bank formerly the Edge of a Prairie, 

 but rendered extremely sickly by the Back Neighbor- 

 hood of Many Overflowing Lakes & Swamps. — 



I was assured that only Two frosts had been felt 

 here this Season and that the Ice in the River never 

 Stopped the Navigation — 



the Town now Prospering at Point Rock is high 

 healthy and in the Center of a Rich tract of [Land] 

 Wood & Prairie Lands — and probably may flourish — 

 the Arkansas River flows a Thick Current of red Clay 

 & Sand, and if not for its coloring would have much 

 of the appearance of the Mississippi — Cotton is raised 

 here With some advantage — Corn grows Well, game 

 & Fish are plenty — 



I here feel Inchned to tell you that an oportunit of 

 Good; Fresh Flour Whiskey, Candles, Cheese, Apples, 

 Porter, Cider, Butter Onions, Tow Linen and Blankets 

 would meet with advantageous Sales during Winter, 

 accompanied by Powder Lead, Flint, [and] Butchers 

 Knives, Rifles, and blue Shrouds for the Indians. 



After Breakfast We Left the Post of Arkansas with a 

 Wish to see the Country above, and so Strong is My 

 Anthusiasm to Enlarge the Ornithological Knowledge 

 of My Country that I felt as if I wish Myself i??V^ again 

 and thereby able to Leave My familly for a Couple of 

 Years — here I saw a French Gentleman who but a few 

 Weeks passed had Killed a Hawk of a Large size per- 



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