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896. June 20lh. Left the good and com 

 fortable house of Mr. Berthoud, very much, 

 pleased with him and his amiable wife and fa 

 mily, though [ differed with him a little in po 

 litics. Haying 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, 1 

 could not agree with him in applauding the 

 Boroughmongers of England for re-subjugating 

 the people of France, and restoring the Bour 

 bons, the Pope, and the Inquisition. 



897. Stop at New Albany, 2 miles below 

 Shippingport, till the evening. A Mr. Pax ton, 

 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 2 Is/. Floating down the river, 

 without any thing in particular occurring. 



899. June Z2nd. 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 



