ALEXANDER WILSON. Ixi 
bridges is the greatest inconvenience to a foot traveller 
ere. Between Shelbyville and Frankfort, having gone 
out of my way to see a pigeon roost, (which, by the bye, 
is the greatest curiosity I have seen since leaving home,) 
j "*i<3ed a deep creek called Benson, nine or ten times, 
spent several days in Frankfort, and in rambling among 
e stupendous clifls of Kentucky river. On Thursday 
evening I entered Lexington. 
descending the Ohio, I amused myself with a 
narrative of my expedition, which I have called 
ae Pilgrim an extract from which shall close this 
and I am afraid, tiresome letter.” 
In the woods, [near the banks of the Green river,] I met 
^ soldier, on foot, from New Orleans, who had been robbed 
plundered by the Chactaws, as he passed through 
nation. ‘ Thirteen or fourteen Indians,’ said he, ‘ sur- 
rounded me before I was aware, cut away my canteen, 
th*^*^ handkerchief from my neck, and 
0 shoes from my feet, and .all the money I had from me, 
*oh Was about forty-live dollars.’ Such was his story, 
lion Soing to Chiloeothe, and seemed pretty nearly 
c Up. Jn |.]jg afternoon I crossed another stream, of 
'^"'onty-live yards in width, called Little Barren ; 
sin^"^ "'^*oh, the country began to assume a new and very 
be'e*"'.^*^ appearance. The woods, which had hitherto 
on oow degenerated into mere scrubby saplings, 
on o bud was beginning to unfold, and grew so 
d ^ coidd see for a mile through them. No 
Wl^ or rotten leaves were to be seen, but the 
int° ground was covered with rich verdure, 
with a variety of very beautiful flowers, alto- 
had ®oemcd as if the whole country 
i.«i ^oon one general level ; but thiit, from some 
‘'nd fall 
o'vn cause, the ground had been undermined, and 
fnnnel-s; 
on in, in innumerable places, forming regular 
shaped concavities, of all dimensions, from twenty 
