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tracts of land, which will impede the partial, 

 though not the final, progress of population 

 and improvement in this part of the state. 



902. On our way to Princeton, we see large 

 flocks of fine wild turkeys, and whole herds of 

 pigs, apparently very fat. The pigs are wild 



.also, but have become so from neglect. Some 

 of the inhabitants, who prefer sport to work, 

 live by shooting these wild turkeys and pigs, 

 and, indeed, sometimes, I understand, they 

 shoot and carry off those of their neighbours 

 before they are wild. 



903. June %5th. Arrived at Princeton, In 

 diana, about 20 miles from the river. I was 

 sorry to see very little doing in this town. They 

 cannot all keep stores and taverns ! One of the 

 store-keepers told me he does not sell more 

 than ten thousand dollars value per annum : 

 he ought, then, to manufacture something and 

 not spend nine tenths of his time in lolling with 

 a segar in his mouth. 



904. June 26th. At Princeton, endeavour 

 ing to purchase horses, as w r e had now gone 

 far enough down the Ohio. While waiting in 

 our tavern, two men called in armed with rifles, 

 and made enquiries for some horses they sus 

 pected to be stolen. They told us they had 

 been almost all the way from Albany, to Shaw- 

 nee town after them, a distance of about 150 



