Jxxlv MEMOIR OF 
fastened my boat to a Kentucky one ; take my baggagei 
and grope my way to Louisville ; put up at the Indian 
Queen Tavern, and gladly sit down to rest myself. 
“March 18. Rose quite refreshed. Found anumber 
of land-speculators here; titles to lands in Kentucky 
subject to great disputes. 
“ March 20 Set out this afternoon with the gnu i 
killed nothing new. People in taverns here devour tbeit 
meals; many shopkeepers board in taverns; also boat- 
men, land-speculators, merchants, &c. iNo naturalists te 
keep me company. 
“ Good country this for lazy fellows : they plant corni 
turn their pigs into the woods, and in the autumn feea 
upon corn and pork ; they lounge about the rest of th® 
^ « March 24. — Weather cool. Walked to ShelbyvlU*' 
to breakfast. Passed some miserable log-houses in the 
midst of rich fields. Called at a ’Squire C.’s, who W*® 
rolling logs ; sat down beside him, but was not invited jn’ 
tliough it was about noon. 
“ March 29. — Finding my baggage not likely to coin« 
on, I set out from Frankfort for Jjc.xington. The woods 
swarm with pigs, squirrels, and woodpeckers. Arrive 
exceedingly fatigued. 
“ Wherever you go, you hear people talking of buy'"* 
and selling land; no readers, all traders,— the Yankee* 
wherever %u find them, are all traders ; found one her* 
a house-carpenter, who came from Massachusetts, an“ 
brought some barrels of apples down the river fro^ 
Pennsylvania to this town, where he employs the negr« 
women to hawk them about the streets, at thirty-sevs 
and a half cents per dozen. 
“ Restless, speculating set of mortals here, full of la'*' 
suits ; no great readers, even of poliUcs or newspapers. ^ 
“ The sweet courtesies of life, the innumerable civilfi'® 
in deeds and conversations, which cost one so little, a* 
