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LOUISVILLE IN KENTUCKY. 



Louisville in Kentucky has always been a favourite place of mine. 

 The beauty of its situation, on the banks of La Belle Riviere, just at the 

 commencement of the famed rapids, commonly called the Falls of the 

 Ohio, had attracted my notice, and when I removed to it, immediately 

 after my marriage, I found it more agreeable than ever. The prospect 

 from the town is such that it would please even the eye of a Swiss. It 

 extends along the river for seven or eight miles, and is bounded on the 

 opposite side by a fine range af low mountains, known by the name of 

 the Silver Hills. The rumbling sound of the waters, as they tumble over 

 the rock-paved bed of the rapids, is at all times soothing to the ear. Fish 

 and game are abundant. But, above all, the generous hospitality of the 

 inhabitants, and the urbanity of their manners, had induced me to fix 

 upon it as a place of residence ; and I did so with the more pleasure when 

 I found that my wife was as much gratified as myself, by the kind at- 

 tentions which were shewn to us, utter strangers as we were, on our ar- 

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No sooner had we landed, and made known our intention of remain- 

 ing, than we were introduced to tile principal inhabitants of the place 

 and its vicinity, although we had not brought a single letter of introduc- 

 tion, and could not but see, from their unremitting kindness, that the 

 Virginian spirit of hospitality displayed itself in all the words and actions 

 of bur newly-formed friends. I wish here to name those persons who so 

 unexpectedly came forward to render our stay among them agreeable, 

 but feel at a loss with whom to begin, so equally deserving are they of 

 our gratitude. The Croghans, the Clarks (our great traveller in- 

 cluded), the Berthouds, the Galts, the Maupins, the Tarascons, 

 the Beals, and the Booths, form but a small portion of the long hst 

 which I could give. The matrons acted like mothers towards my wife, 

 the daughters proved agreeable associates, and the husbands and sons 

 were friends and companions to me. If I absented myself on business or 

 otherwise, for any length of time, my wife was removed to the hospitable 

 abode of some friend in the neighbourhood until my return, and then, 

 kind reader, I was several times obliged to spend a week or more with 



