CONTENTS. XI 



CHAP. XXXVI. 



Louisville. Noble Site for a Commercial City. Geology. 

 Medical Students. Academical Rotation in Office. Epis 

 copal Church. Preaching against the Reformation. 

 Service in Black Methodist Church. Improved Condi 

 tion of Negroes in Kentucky. A coloured Slave mar 

 ried as a free White. Voyage to Cincinnati. Naturalised 

 English Artizan gambling. Sources of Anti-British 

 Antipathies. Progress of Cincinnati. Increase of 

 German Settlers. Democracy of Romanists. Geology 

 of Mill Creek. Land Tortoises. Observatory. Culti 

 vation of the Vine. Sculpture by Hiram Powers - 279 



CHAP. XXXVII. 



Cincinnati toPittsburg. Improved Machinery of Steamer. 

 Indian Mound. Gravel Terraces. Pittsburg Fire. 

 Journey to Greensburg. Scenery like England. Ore 

 gon War Question. Fossil Foot-prints of Air-breath 

 ing Reptile in Coal Strata. Casts of Mud-cracks. 

 Foot-prints of Birds and Dogs sculptured by Indians. 

 Theories respecting the Geological Antiquity of highly 

 organized Vertebrata. Prejudices opposed to the Re 

 ception of Geological Truths. Popular Education the 

 only Means of preventing a Collision of Opinion be 

 tween the Multitude and the Learned - - 297 



CHAP. XXXVIII. 



Greensburg to Philadelphia. Crossing the Alleghany 

 Mountains. Scenery. Absence of Lakes. Harris- 

 burg. African Slave-trade. Railway Meeting at 

 Philadelphia. Borrowing Money for Public Works. 

 Negro Episcopal Clergyman. Washington. National 

 Fair and Protectionist Doctrines. Dog- wood in Vir 

 ginia. Excursion with Dr. Wyman. Natural History. 

 Musk-rats. Migration of Humming-birds to New- 

 Jersey - - 319 



