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Arrive at Blue Licks, close by the fine Lick 

 ing Creek, 22 miles from Paris. Here is a 

 sulphur and salt spring like that at French Lick 

 in Indiana, which makes this a place of great 

 resort in summer for the fashionable swallowers 

 of mineral waters ; the three or four taverns are 

 at this time completely crowded. Salt was 

 made till latterly at this spring, by an old Scots 

 man ; he now attends the ferry across the Creek. 

 Not much to be said for the country round 

 here ; it is stony and barren, what I have not 

 seen before in Kentucky. 



037. July \5tk. To Maysville, or Lime 

 stone, 24 miles. This is a place on the banks 

 of the Ohio, and is a sort of port for shipping 

 down the river to a great part of that district 

 of the state for which Louisville is the shipping 

 port to and from New Orleans. Still hot ; 90 

 degrees again. This is the fifth day; rather 

 unusual, this continuance of heat. The hot 

 spells as well as the cold spells, seldom last 

 more than three days, pretty generally in Ame 

 rica. 



938. July Wth.Hot still, but a fine breeze 

 blowing up the river. Not a bit too hot for 

 me, but the natives say it is the hottest weather 

 they recollect in this country ; a proof to me 

 that this is a mild climate, as to heat, at any 

 rate. Saw a cat-fish in the market, just caught 



