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that with the reader's permission who has traveled thus 

 far with me, we will tarry a while and partake of heart- 

 felt hospitality while resting from the fatigue of our 

 thousand miles journey. And now for another short 

 month, dear reader, a kind adieu from your old friend 



and fellow traveller. 



Solon Robinson. 



Notes of Travel in the Southwest — No. VIII. 

 Visit to Warren county — Vicksburgh — Hill-side culti- 

 vation — Orcharding — &c, &c. 



[Albany Cultivator, n. s. 2:334-35; Nov., 1845] 



[Covering February 21-28, 1845] 

 Well, dear reader, are you rested? so am I, and so, 

 if you please, we will go ahead again. During a rest of 

 four days at Log Hall, the residence of Dr. Phillips, I 

 have eaten more vegetables than during the four weeks 

 that I have been on the road from St. Louis. 



Leaving the examination and description of the Doc- 

 tor's plantation till another day, let us mount our horses 

 and take a ride over Warren county, and visit the city 

 of the "Walnut Hills," the far-famed town of Vicksburgh. 

 This county is one of several similar ones along the 

 Mississippi river, and presents a most singular forma- 

 tion. It is called hilly, but I think the word side-hills 

 would convey a more correct idea. It seems to me, from 

 careful examination, to have been a deposit of alluvium 

 two or three hundred feet deep. At the bottom, coarse 

 gravel, then fine, then sand, and then a deposit some 

 ten or twelve feet deep, of fine silex, lime and shells ; now 

 a bed of rich marly loam, above which is the fine alumina 

 that was held longest in solution. After this deposit had 

 lain long enough to form a stratum of limestone under- 

 neath, it was apparenty disturbed by an earthquake, 

 which left the surface in the most uneven condition of 

 any tract of country I have ever seen. I saw many side- 

 hills in cultivation lying at an angle of 45 degrees, and 

 singular as it may appear, although there is not a level 



