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twenty houses but eight were of brick, and most of 

 them were mere log huts. Cincinnati was a poor 

 little village. Cleveland consisted of but two or 

 three log cabins, at a time when there were already 

 a thousand settlers in its neighborhood on the Con- 

 necticut Reserve, scattered out on their farms. 19 

 Natchez was a very important town, nearly as large 

 as Lexington. It derived its importance from the 

 river traffic on the Mississippi. All the boatmen 

 stopped there, and sometimes as many as one hun- 

 dred and fifty craft were moored to the bank at the 

 same time. The men who did this laborious river 

 work were rude, powerful, and lawless, and when 

 they halted for a rest their idea of enjoyment was 

 the coarsest and most savage dissipation. At Nat- 

 chez there speedily gathered every species of pur- 

 veyor to their vicious pleasures, and the part of the 

 town known as "Natchez under the Hill" became a 

 byword for crime and debauchery. 20 



Kentucky had grown so in population, possessing 

 over two hundred thousand inhabitants, that she 

 had begun to resemble an Eastern State. When, in 

 1796, Benjamin Logan, the representative of the 

 old woodchoppers and Indian fighters, ran for gov- 

 ernor and was beaten, it was evident that Kentucky 

 had passed out of the mere pioneer days. It was 

 more than a mere coincidence that in the following 

 year Henry Clay should have taken up his residence 

 in Lexington. It showed that the State was already 



19 "Historical Collections of Ohio," p. 120. 

 90 Henry Ker, "Travels," p. 41. 



