CONTEXTS. 



CHAPTER XXXVI. 



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Louisville. Noble Site for a Commercial City. Geology. Medical 

 Students. Academical Rotation in Office. Episcopal Church. 

 Preaching against the Reformation. Service in \Black Methodist 

 Church. Improved Condition of Negroes in KefK^cky. A colored 

 Slave married as a free White/ Voyage to Cincinnati. Naturalized 

 English Artisan gambling. Sources of Anti-British Antipathies. 

 Progress of Cincinnati. Increase of German Settlers. Democracy of 

 Romanists. Geology of Mill Creek. Land Tortoises. Observatory. 

 Cultivation of the Vine. Sculp ture by Hiram Powers . . .210 



CHAPTER XXXVII. 



Cincinnati to Pittsburg. Improved Machinery of Steamer. Indian 

 Mound. Gravel Terraces. Pittsburg Fire. Journey to Greensburg. 

 Scenery like England. Oregon War Question. Fossil Foot-prints of 

 Air-breathing 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 Reception of Geological Truths. Popular Education 

 the only Means of preventing a Collision of Opinion between the 

 Multitude and the Learned 223 



CHAPTER XXXVIII. 



Greensburg to Philadelphia. Crossing the Alleghany Mountains. 

 Scenery. Absence of Lakes. Harrisburg. African Slave-trade. 

 Railway Meeting at Philadelphia. Borrowing Money for Public 

 Works. Negro Episcopal Clergyman. Washington. National Fair 

 and Protectionist Doctrines. Dog-wood in Virginia. Excursion with 

 Dr. Wyman. Natural History. Musk-rats. Migration of Humming 

 birds to New Jersey 239 



CHAPTER XXXIX. 



New York, clear Atmosphere and gay Dresses. Omnibuses. Naming of 

 Streets. Visit to Audubon. Croton Aqueduct. Harpers Printing 

 Establishment. Lar^e Sale of Works by English and American 



