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For the Monthly Magazine. 
LETTERS FROM MR. TOULMIN OF KEN- 
TUCKY (Continued from p. 117.) 
LETTER Il. 
OU will no doubt be feeling fome 
anxiety to hear fromus again, though 
I know not that any opportunity which hag 
fallen in my way has been neglected. I 
wrote very fully upon our arrival. Mr. 
wrote by the packet to Mr. - of 
‘Tiverton, to whom I have no further in- 
formation to communicate refpecting mu- 
fic: and I would recommend it to no one 
who diflikes flavery, and which muf ftrike 
the moft carelefs obferver, its confequences, 
indolence and diffipation, or who fears the 
influence of the examples of fuch habits 
upon the minds of children, to fettle in 
any part of Virginia eaftward of the Blue 
Ridge. Beyond that I have not been, and 
therefore can fay nothing from perfonal 
ebfervation ; but it is generally faid, there 
are few flaves and much wduftry. Yet 
where flaves can be had, I fhould fear they 
will increafe. The people are going to 
Kentucky from every place. I have ‘feen 
multitudes of well-informed people, who 
all confirm the accounts of its fafety, its 
fertility, and its rapid improvements ; fo 
that fociety has made a tarther progrefs 
there than in moft parts of Virginia, But 
no doubt its frontiers are dangerous, on 
account of the Indian war, which ftill re- 
mains in a very indecifive ftate. A great 
itruggiehas been made there for the aboli- 
tion of -flavery. They expeét to fucceed 
by and by: new flaves however are ftill 
purchafed ; and, I confefs, I cannot recon- 
cile myfelf to the idea of fettling in any 
country, where I do not fee the way clear 
for its utter overthrow. “There is a very 
fine country, which 1 have vifited, be- 
tween the South-welt mountain and the 
Blue Ridge, exceedingly well adapted to 
the growth of wheat ; but there are no la- 
bourers but blacks; and the white ‘men 
who have come from Europe, have ufually 
become indolent through the influence of 





flavery. 
M. R introduced me to Mr. 
Ss of Baltimore: I fent his letter, 
and Mr. $ returned a variety of 
letters of introduction for me to different 
‘ friends, with a very friendly letter to me, 
exprefling his wifhes to ferve me, and fay- 
ing that-a gentleman of the Prefbyterian 
perfuafion urged my fettling in Baltimore, 
where he would infure my making by a 
fchool 240l.'a year ; and that another 
ftrongly recommended my going to Har- 
rifburg, near Cailifle, in, Pennfylvania, 
Letters from Mr. Toulmin of Kentucky. 
{ April r, 
where I fhould be fure of fuccefs. Har- 
rifburg will be in my way, and the fituation 
is juft fuch, I conje&ture, as would bef 
fuit my Englifh friends, fhould they not 
go back to Kentucky ; but of courfe every 
thing muft be uncertain, till I obtain far- 
tler information, and I fhall fay nothing 
about it in my letters to Chowbent. | 
We expect to fet off to-morrow, Mon- 
day, for Winchefter, in the Valley of the 
Shenandoa ; and, purfuing that Valley, to 
goto Hagar’s Town, on the Maryland fide 
of the Potowmac ; and to Carlifle and Har- 
rifburg, in Pennfylvania. 
* * * 2, 
* * oe 
I have had a fevere attack of the inter 
mitting fever, fo prevalent in all the flat, © 
eaftern part of this country ; though it is 
altogether unknown, when you get near 
even to the firft range of mountains. I 
probably firft took it by bathing at mid- 
day: but [hope it is"gone; for yefterday, 
when I fhould have had the fit, I kept very 
well, having ufed plentifully bark and the 
faline mixture. 
But I fhould fay, where I have been. 
I left and Mr. at Nor- 
folk, from whence they came by water to 
Port-Royal, twenty miles below this town. 
J failed to Urbania, but did not find Mr. 
Ww , Captain G ’s friend, at 
home. Then I went by land: fixty miles, 
where I met with a very friendly treat-~ 
ment, bought a horfe, went up the country 
to Monticello, Mr. Jefferfon’s ; Char- 
lotte’s-Ville, Col. Monro’s, one of the 
Senators in»Congrefs; Mr. Maddifon’s, 
and down to Port-Royal, making it about 
200 miles from Richmond. I was every 
where moft hofpitably received, travelling 
five days without {pending a half-penny. 
N , too, was invited to every one’s 
houfe in Port-Royal, though fhe had no 
letters of introduétion with her. But it is 
expenfive at public houfes. 
Lait Sunday I preached : but was forced 
to ftop in the middle, it being my fever- day; 
but I refumed it. The Virginians are 
wonderfully indifferent about public wor 
fhip. There is a want of fchools; anda 
man of abilities might have, I believe, a 
good profpeét of fuccefs in different places. 
This (Sunday) morning, I preached in the 
parifh church, the: minifter being from ~ 
home. I had only a prayer of my own 
before and after fermon. The people had 
affembled, and were waiting for me: and 
I knew not that I was expe&ted to preach 
till the clerk came to let me know it. We 
dined with Judge Jones, a plain, but moft. 
intelligent, old gentleman. He is juft 
going 





