SOLON ROBINSON, 1845 479 



to listen to a new tale upon a new subject from your old 

 friend. 



Log Hall, Mississippi, Feb. 22, 1845. 



Notes of Travel in the Southwest — No. IX. 



By Solon Robinson. 



Mississippi — Visit to Mr. North, Ed. S. W. Farmer — 



and Mr. Gibson. 



[Albany Cultivator, n. s. 2:365-66; Dec, 1845'] 



[Covering March 1-4, 1845] 

 "There is no rest for the wicked" — and so, as Dr. P. 

 and myself both belong to that family, we are off upon 

 the morning after you and I, my dear reader, last parted 

 company, and our first object is to visit friend North, of 

 the South Western Farmer, at Raymond. We found him 

 in his office sticking type, for to that was he bred. Would 

 you know what manner of man is this southern editor? 

 He is perhaps forty years old — six feet high — slim built 

 — has a very intellectual face and keen eye — and withal, 

 has the organ of benevolence so large that he would 

 gladly see all mankind as happy as himself. To say that 

 he was pleased to see me, conveys but a faint idea of the 

 real enjoyment that my visit afforded him, as I fully 

 believe. Mr. North feels the greatest anxiety to improve 

 the agriculture of the south, and as a natural conse- 

 quence to elevate the moral condition of the cultivators 

 of the soil. 'Tis for this holy purpose that he has labored 

 several years in publishing the South Western Farmer 

 with a list of subscribers amounting almost to 400, and 

 this the only paper devoted to agriculture in the state 

 of Mississippi, or for the states of Louisiana, Arkansas, 

 and Alabama. It seems a hopeless task to attempt to en- 

 lighten such a population ; but Mr. North is full of hope, 

 and intends as soon as the present volume is closed, to 

 enlarge and improve the next, and being assisted by the 



'Printed also in Nashville Agriculturist, 6:182-83 (December, 

 1845). 



