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t!ie river. One v/ent by us as we arrived here wliieh 

 had left Shippingport only t!ie evening before. They 

 go down the river at tlie rate cf 10 miles an hour, and 

 charge passengers G cents a mile, ijoarding and lodging 

 included. 1'he price is great, but the fnue is short. 



501. Jhhc 24///.— Leit'^Evansville. This little plac? 

 is rapidly increa!<ing, and promisf^s to be a tov, n of 

 considerable trade. It is situated at a spot -which 

 seems likely to become a port lor shipping to Prince- 

 ton and a prettv large district of Indiana. 1 find that 

 the land speculators have made entrv of the most 

 eligible tracts of land, which will impede the partial, 

 though not the final, progress of population and im- 

 provement in this part of the state. 



60'2. On our way to Princeton, we see large flocks 

 of fine M'ild turkeys, and whole herds of pigs, appa- 

 rently very fat. The pigs are wild also, but have 

 become so from neglect. Koine of the inhabitants, Avho 

 prefer sport to work, live by Rhooling these wihl turkeys 

 and pigs, and indeed, soineiimes, I understand, they 

 s!u)ot and carry off those of their neighbours beiuro 

 they are wild. 



503. June 'Ihth. — Arrived at Princeton, Indian;?, 

 about twenty miles Iroin the river. 1 Mas sorry to see 

 rery little doing in this town. They caimot all keep 

 stores and ta^ erns ! One of the storekeepers told me 

 he does not sell more than ten thousand dollars vahie 

 per annum : he ouglit, then, to m'.nufacture something 

 ami not spend nine tenths of his time ii\ lolling with a 

 segar in his mouth. 



504. June'ldfli. At Princeton, mdeavoining to piu- 

 chase horses, as we had now gone i'ar enough down the 

 Ohio. While waiting in our tavern, two men called in 

 armed with rifles, and nuvde en<piiries for some horses 

 they suspected to be stolen. They told us they had 

 been almost all the way from .Albany, to Shawnee 

 town after them, a distance of alsout 150 miles. I 

 asked them how tliey Mould be able to secure the 

 thieves, if they overtook them, in these Mild Moods ; 

 *' O," said they, " shoot them off the horses." This 

 is a summary mode of executing justice, thought I, 

 though probably the most effectual, ond, indeed, only 



