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after having undergone so much perpendicular motion 

 upon the more common "rail-roads" of this country. The 

 face of the country between Vernon and Madison is un- 

 even and rocky, and all the streams are at right angles 

 with the course of the track, and the general level of 

 the country several hundred feet above the Ohio, so that 

 the grade from the town to the top of the hill is a very 

 expensive one, and is not yet completed. 



Madison is a fine flourishing town, and what is no 

 little to the credit of several of her merchants, I found 

 the well read numbers of the Cultivator upon their 

 desks, and some fine Berkshire pigs in their yards. 



What a proud satisfaction it would be to me to be able 

 to say the same of every business man in my dear 

 adopted state. There I witnessed another creditable 

 indication of an improving state of society, in a very 

 large temperance meeting at which I saw "female influ- 

 ence" fully exerted in a most glorious cause. 



But fear of becoming prolix, warns me once more to 

 say adieu, 



Solon Robinson. 



No. 4. 

 Prospect Hill, near Washinton, Ky. 

 Aug. 22, 1841. 

 Editors of Cultivator — For ten days past, I have 

 been in such a busy interesting scene, that my memo- 

 randa have fallen behind; but to-day I am domiciled in 

 the house of Judge Beaty, 1 and enjoying one of the many 

 real Kentucky welcomes that I have found in this free- 

 hearted state, with an opportunity to bring up my notes. 



'Adam Beatty, born at Hagerstown, Maryland, May 10, 1777; 

 died June 9, 1858. Lawyer, farmer, and agricultural writer. Con- 

 tributor to Kentucky Farmer and other agricultural periodicals. 

 Published a book of essays, Southern Agriculture (1843) ; revised 

 edition issued (1844) under title, Essays on Practical Agriculture. 

 See Dictionary of American Biography, 2:99-100. 



