Part III.] Journal. ' 285 



They are not near enough to good coal mines to do 

 much in that way. What they do, however, is well 

 paid for. A spinner told me he gets 83 cents per lb. 

 lor his twist, which is 33 cents more than it would fetch 

 at New York. Stop at Mr. Timberlake's, a good house. 

 The bar-keeper, who comes from England, tells me 

 that he sailed to Canada, but he is glad he had the 

 means to leave Canada and come to Kentucky ; he has 

 300 dollars a year, and board and lodging. Made en- 

 quiry after young Watson, but find he has leit thi» 

 place and is gone to Lexington. 



535. The following is a list of the wages and prices 

 of the most essential branches of workmanship and 

 articles of consumption, as they are here at present. 



Journeymen saddlers' price for du.cu. discis; 



drawing on men's saddles ... «l 25 to 2 50 



Journeymen blacksmiths, per day 1 . . — 1 25 



— Per month 25 . . — 30 



Journeymen hatters (casters) ... 1 25 . — 



Ditto, rorum 1 . . — 



Ditto for finishing, per month, 



and found 30 . . — 



Journeymen shoe-makers (coarse ) . . 75 — 



Ditto, ^/ic , .', 1 25 — 



Ditto, for boots 3 25 — 



Journeymen tailors, by the coat 5 . . — 

 Stone-masons or bricklayers, per 



day 1 . . _ 1 50 



Carpenters, per day, and found 1 . . — 



Salary for a clerk, per annum . . 200 . . — 500 



Beef, per 100 lbs. . , • 6 .. — 



Flour, per barrel 6 . . — 



536. July I4th. — Hot again ; 90 degrees. Ar- 

 rive at Blue Licks, close by the fine Licking Creek, 

 22 miles from Paris. Here is a sulphur and salt spring 

 like that at French Lick in Indiana, which makes this a 

 place of great resort in summer for the fashionable 



* Or 5s. Tjd. to lly. 3d. sterling. At the present rate of ex- 

 change, a dollar is equivalent to 45. Gd, sterling, and a cent is 

 the hundredth part of a dollar. 



