ALEXANDER WILSON. 
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to ®^stence, so far from being forgotten, is as dear 
as my own. But, David, an ambition of being 
™ the literary world has required sacrifices 
®’^®>’tions from me with which you are unacquainted ; 
that *■“ teach the glorious rock of independence, 
stru ^tom thence assist my relatives, who are 
Q,j 5^ with, and hulfeting the hillows of adversity, has 
than “'tdertaking more laborious and extensive 
^te aware of, and has occupied almost every 
ffly time for several years. Since February, 
Slone • -'Icpt, for several weeks, in the wilderness 
in ’ an Indian country, with my gun and my pistols 
sick ^ ; and havq found myself so reduced by 
300 ^'*'?^’ to be scarcely able to stand, when not within 
Inj' of a white settlement, and under the burning 
njj "ts of 25 degrees. I have, by resolution, surmounted 
nji(j SRd other obstacles, in my way to ray object, 
arn begin to see the blue sky of independence open 
mid nie_>i 
siyg . ‘■oncluding the account of this, his most exten- 
. before 
we may present a few extracts from his 
of ’ P''en by the American Biographer, as specimens 
^'''wsified treatment which he experienced, — at 
diiig forbidding, at times civil and kind, accor- 
'vith habits, dispositions, and civilization of those 
" 'Jmom be met. 
"'^altb ^ — Visited a number of the literati and 
'■hink Cincinnati, who all told me, that they would 
foj viz. of subscribing; they are a very thought- 
^ people. 
17. — Bained and hailed all last night. Set 
of , ®'Sht o’clock, after emptying my boat of the deluge 
Wijjj ’ I'owed hard all day ; at noon recruited myself 
thg fojj”*”® biscuits, cheese, and American wine ; reach 
sfter * ’ msbt sets in ; hear the roaring of the rapids ; 
excessive hard work, arrived at Bear Grass Creek, and 
