AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Friday November 17th 1820 



We left early — I took the Skiff and Went to the 

 Mouth of the Ohio, and round the point up the 

 Misisipi — 



Eleven Years ago on the 2 of January I ascended 

 that Stream to St. Genevieve Ferdinand Rozier of 

 Nantes my partner in a Large Keel Boat Loaded with 

 Sundries to a Large Amount our property 



The 10*'* of May 1819 I passed this place in an open 

 Skiff Bound to New Orleans with two of My Slaves — 



Now I enter it poor in fact Destitute of all things and 

 reliing only on that providential Hope the Comforter 

 of this Wearied Mind — in a flat Boat a Passenger — 



The meeting of the Two Streams reminds me a little 

 of the [Young,] Gentle, [man] Youth who Comes in the 

 World, spotles he presents himself, he is gradually 

 drawn in to thousands of Dificulties that Makes him 

 wish to keep [to himself] apart, but at Last he is over 

 done [and] mixed, anH lost in the Vortex — 



The Beautifull & Transparent Watter of the Ohio 

 when first entering the Misisipi is taken in small Drafts 

 and Looks the More aquable to the Eye as it goes 

 down surrounded by the Muddy Current, it keeps off 

 as much as possible by running down on the Kentucky 

 side for several miles but reduced to a narrow strip & 

 is lost — I saw here two Indians in a Canoe they spoke 

 some French, had Bear traps, uncomonly clean kept, 



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