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or in respect to their execution; and I account myself fortunate to 
have seen them through Mr. Lesueur’s politeness. He showed 
me also the sketches he made while on his last pedestrian tour, 
as well as those during the voyage of several members of the so¬ 
ciety to Mount Vernon, down the Ohio from Pittsburgh. On this 
voyage, the society had many difficulties to contend with, and 
were obliged often to cut a path for the boat through the ice. 
The sketches exhibit the originality of talent of the artist. He 
had come with Mr. McClure in 1815, from France to Philadel¬ 
phia, where he devoted himself to the arts and sciences. Whether 
he will remain long in this society or not, I cannot venture to 
decide,* 
CHAPTER XXII. 
Travels to Louisville , and Stay in that City , 
ON the 21st of April, we left New Harmony, after taking a 
cordial leave of Mr. Owen, and availed ourselves of the mail stage, 
which leaves here once a week for Mount Vernon, to make this 
passage. Besides our company, there was only a single traveller 
in the stage, a Mr. Riley, from Cincinnati, and a native of Ire¬ 
land. One mile from New Harmony, we were forced to alight 
from the carriage, as the horses would not draw us up a steep 
hill. One-half mile farther, we got out again on account of a 
similar dilemma, and we had hardly done so, when it was over¬ 
turned by the unskilfulness of the driver. We unloaded our bag¬ 
gage, left it under the care of Bottner, my servant, permitted the 
driver to his chagrin and mortification to go on alone, and re¬ 
turned back on foot to New Harmony, to look about for another 
method of conveyance. I paid a visit to Messrs. McClure, Le- 
sueur, &c. They told me that about ten o’clock a cart under the 
direction of a Mr. Johnson would leave this place for Mount Ver¬ 
non, in which our baggage would find a place. As to our own 
conveyance, I saw plainly that it would be the wiser plan to con¬ 
fide mine to my own trustworthy legs. I assumed therefore the 
pilgrim’s staff, left my slower moving travelling companions 
something behind, and accomplished the sixteen miles to Mount 
Vernon, over a very hilly road, in five hours. 
I did not pass through Springfield, saw only two solitary log- 
* [He has left it some time since, as well as Dr. Troost.]—T eaks. 
