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Several regular schools were started. There were 

 already meeting-houses of the Baptist and Dutch 

 Reformed congregations, the preachers spending the 

 week-days in clearing and tilling the fields, splitting 

 rails, and raising hogs; in 1783 a permanent Pres- 

 byterian minister arrived, and a log church was 

 speedily built for him. The sport-loving Kentuck- 

 ians this year laid out a race track at Shallowford 

 Station. It was a straight quarter of a mile course, 

 within two hundred yards of the stockade; at its 

 further end was a canebrake, wherein an Indian 

 once lay hid and shot a rider, who was pulling up 

 his horse at the close of a race. There was still 

 but one ferry, that over the Kentucky River at 

 Boonesborough ; the price of ferriage was three 

 shillings for either man or horse. The surveying 

 was still chiefly done by hunters, and much of it 

 was in consequence very loose indeed. 32 



The first retail store Kentucky had seen since 

 Henderson's, at Boonesborough, was closed in 1775, 

 was established this year at the Falls; the goods 

 were brought in wagons from Philadelphia to Pitts- 

 burg, and thence down the Ohio in flat-boats. The 

 game had been all killed off in the immediate neigh- 

 borhood of the town at the Falls, and Clark under- 

 took to supply the inhabitants with meat, as a com- 

 mercial speculation. Accordingly he made a con- 

 tract with John Saunders, the hunter who had 

 guided him on his march to the Illinois towns; the 

 latter had presumably forgiven his chief for having 



32 McAfee MSS. Marshall, Collins, Brown's pamphlets. 

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