14 INTRODUCTION. 



time; only fresh land, or land highly 

 dunged. 



I employed a servant that had lived in 

 those boasted back woods. He had been 

 hired by a man that purchased land in 

 Kentucky; and he and his master went to 

 clear lands for the purpose of growing 

 Indian corn. While performing this busi- 

 ness they built themselves a log-house, 

 which was open on the sides by the logs 

 not lying close to each other : such open- 

 ings are frequently filled up with dirt ; but 

 their time being of so much consequence to 

 raise food, this was omitted. There was no 

 entrance to it but at the top, like a hatch- 

 way in a ship. When they had raised 

 the corn, and they wanted it ground, they 

 had forty miles to go to a mill ; which, 

 with returning, was two-days journey. 

 When the master was absent on these oc- 



