Ixxiv 
MEMOIR OF 
fastened my boat to a Kentucky one take my baggage, 
and grope my way to Louis viile ; put up at the Indian 
Queen Tavern, and gladly sit down to rest myself. 
44 March 18. — Rose quite refreshed. Found a number 
of land-speculators here ; titles to lands in Kentucky 
subject to great disputes. 
44 March 20 -Set out this afternoon with the gun ; 
killed nothing new. People in taverns here devour their 
meals ; many shopkeepers board in taverns : also boat- 
men, land-speculators, merchants, &c. No naturalists to 
keep me company. 
44 Good country this for lazy fellows : they plant corn, 
turn their pigs into the woods, and in the autumn feed 
upon corn and pork ; they lounge about the rest of the 
year. 
“March 24. — Weather cool. Walked to Shelbyville 
to breakfast. Passed some miserable log-houses in the 
midst of rich fields. Called at a Squire C.’s, who was 
rolling logs ; sat down beside him, but was not invited in, 
though it was about noon. 
44 March 29 - Finding my baggage not likely to come 
on, I set out from Frankfort for Lexington. The woods 
swarm with pigs, squirrels, and woodpeckers. Arrived 
exceedingly fatigued. 
44 Wherever you go, you hear people talking of buying 
and selling land ; no readers, all traders, — the Yankees, 
wherever you find them, are all traders ; found one here, 
a house-carpenter, who came from Massachusetts, and 
brought some barrels of apples down the river from 
Pennsylvania to this town, where he employs the negro 
women to hawk them about the streets, at thirty-seven 
and a half cents per dozen. 
44 Restless, speculating set of mortals here, full of law- 
suits ; no great readers, even of politics or newspapers. 
44 The sweet courtesies of life, the innumerable civilities 
in deeds and conversations, which cost one so little, are 
