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a very respectable French gentleman, from whom we received 

 the greatest civility during our stay, which was two nights and the 

 day intervening. 



895. Shippingport is situated at a place of very great importance, 

 being the upper extremity of that part of the river which is 

 navigable for heavy steam-boats. All the goods coming from 

 the country are re-shipped, and every thing going to it is un 

 shipped, here. Mr. Berthoud has the store in which the articles 

 exporting or importing are lodged ; and is, indeed, a great shipper, 

 though at a thousand miles from the sea. 



896. June 2oth. Left the good and comfortable house of Mr. 

 Berthoud, very much pleased with him and his amiable wife and 

 family, though I differed with him a little in politics. Having 

 been taught at church, when a boy, that the Pope was the whore 

 of Babylon, that the Bourbons were tyrants, and that the Priests 

 and privileged orders of France were impostors and petty tyrants 

 under them, I could not agree with him in applauding the Borough- 

 mongers of England for re-subjugating the people of France, and 

 restoring the Bourbons, the Pope, and the Inquisition. 



897. Stop at New Albany, 2 miles below Shippingport, till the 

 evening. A Mr. Paxton, I am told, is the proprietor of a great 

 part of the town, and has the grist and saw-mills, which are worked 

 by steam, and the ferry across the river. Leave this place in 

 company with a couple of young men from the western part of 

 the state of New York, who are on their way to Tennessee in. a 

 small ferry-boat. Their whole journey will, probably, be about 

 1,500 miles. 



898. June 2ist. Floating down the river, without any thing in 

 particular occurring. 



899. June 22nd. Saw a Mr. Johnstone and his wife reaping 

 wheat on the side of the river. They told us they had come to 

 this spot last year, direct from Manchester, Old England, and 

 had bought their little farm of 55 acres of a back-woods-man 

 who had cleared it, and was glad to move further westward, for 3 

 dollars an acre. They had a fine flock of little children, and pigs 

 and poultry, and were cheerful and happy, being confident that 

 their industry and economy would not be frustrated by visits for 

 tithes or taxes. 



900. June 2$rd. See great quantities of turkey-buzzards and 

 thousands of pigeons. Came to Pigeon Creek, about 230 miles 

 below the Falls, and stopped for the night at Evansville, a town 

 of nine months old, near the mouth of it. We are now frequently 

 met and passed by large, fine steam-boats, plying up and down 

 the river. One went by us as we arrived here which had left 

 Shippingport only the evening before. They go down the river 

 at the rate of 10 miles an hour, and charge passengers 6 cents, a 

 mile, boarding and lodging included. The price is great, but the 

 time is short. 



901. June 2$th. Left Evansville. This little place is rapidly 



