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hills on its banks seem to be the separations. 

 Altogether, nothing can be more beautiful. 



885. June llth. A very hot day, but I could 

 not discover the degree of heat. On going 

 along we bought two Perch, weighing about 

 8 Ibs. each, for 25 cents, of a boy who was fish 

 ing. Fish of this sort will sometimes weigh 

 30 Ibs. each. a pa 



886. June 12^. Pass Portsmouth, at the 

 mouth of the Scioto River. A sort of village, 

 containing a hundred or two of houses. Not 

 worthy of any particular remark. 



887. June 13th. Arrived at Cincinnati about 

 midnight. Tied our ark to a large log at the 

 side of the river, and went to sleep. Before 

 morning, however, the fastening broke, and, if 

 it had not been for a watchful back-woods-man 

 whom we had taken on board some distance up 

 the river, we might have floated ten or fifteen 

 miles without knowing it. This back-woods 

 man, besides being of much service to us, has 

 been a very entertaining companion. He says 

 he has been in this country forty years, but 

 that he is an Englishman, and was bred in 

 Sherwood Forest (he could not have come from 

 a better nursery). All his adventures he detailed 

 to us very minutely, but dwelt with particular 

 warmth upon one he had had with a priest, 

 lately, who, to spite him for preaching, brought 



