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lery. It reprefents Minerva, as the 
Patronefs of the Arts and Sciences, hold- 
ing a lyre in one hand, and a crown of 
laurel in the other. Both the purity of the 
defign and mafterly execution of this figure 
have met with general and well merited ap- 
procaton: 
— 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
EXTRACTS from a LETTER Of the Rev. 
H. TOULMIN, dated CHILACOTHAC, 
Territory North Weft of the on10, 19th. 
of April, 1801. 
HIS place is on the Scioto river, 
7% about 40 miles from where it emp- 
ties into the Ohio. It is beautifully fitu- 
ated, and, though laid off but four vears 
ago, is become a a confiderable Boe When 
Y came down the Ohio, the Scioto was 
the moi dangerous ae of the weftern 
country for Indians. I paffed it with 
dread. The fettlements are now won- 
derfully.extended and fcattered over the 
whole country. I came hither to buy 
land for a gentleman in Maflachufets and 
myfelf, ‘which is felling for the taxes due 
on it; but fear it will be almof labour 
loft. We purchafed between 70 and 80,000 
acres at Frankfort laft winter, of which 
T expeét we fhall fave a good dei]. But 
I fhall be forced to fell when the titles are 
afcertained, as the taxes on fo much will 
be very burthenfome. I have been much 
concerned to hear of the extravagant 
prices you have been forced to give for 
provifions: with us, on the other hand, 
_ flour has been four dollars anda half a 
barrel of 196 pounds: Wheat halt-a-dol- 
lar a bufhel: Beef, by the carcafe, one 
dollar and three-quarters \ per 1oolb. 
Much flour has been fent to New Orle- 
ans for exportation ; but we are told that 
fome of your thips have blocked up the 
mouth of our river, the Mi GiGi ppi. Of- 
ten have I wifhed that the intercourfe be- 
tween this country and yours were fuch 
as to admit of my fending a few harrels 
to you. Enough flour has been fold to 
give us fome little money among us; of 
orks there is, at prefcnt, aa amazing 
{caicity: as the poor officers of govern- 
ment have felt to their colt, their falaries 
being all reduced, 
There is at prefent a wonderful firr of 
religion (as the phrale is) in Kentucky. 
Hundreds of people are baptized in feve- 
neighbourhoods, facies twenty a 
day. But this, not becaufe the uhder-' 
fianding is convinced—not becaufe they 
have read the Ser iptures and admire them 
—not becaule they are convinced of the 
truth of Chriftianity, and deem it right to 
Extraéts from a Letter of H. Toulmin. 
*9 
make a profeffion of thetr belief—but be- 
caufe they have once or twice drapped 
into a meeting-houfe, where the preacher 
has threatened damnation to the uncon- 
verted, and. promifed heaven ta ‘the bap: 
tifed—where the groanings and lamenta- 
tions of the minifter—the {creamings and 
clappings of the people—the experiences 
of the converted, and all the train of ap- 
paratus calculated’ to operate on the ima- 
gination, have aflured them, that the only 
path to happinefs is to be baptifed, and to 
obferve the great characteriltics of conver- 
fion; viz. an abhorrence of ce mu- 
fic, and cardeplaying. 
I am looking with a good deal of anx- 
iety for Mr. ,&c. If he will pro- 
fecute his bufinefs here,* he may makea 
handfome property; for we muft manu- 
facture goods for our own confumption. 
Indeed, at prefent, indufrious farmers 
make cloth enough to clothe their own 
families. . Even. our. governor’s daugh- 
ters are fpinners: and their example has 
its influence on others, who affected to 
feel themfelves above it: but they all 
want the right implements. 
Dr. (Mr. *s friend) is 
at Lexington. He has repeatedly ftaid 
at my houfe. He came on account. of 
his land here, which he purchafed in Lon- 
don; I think it is 20,c09 acres; but the 
greater part I fear very indifferent, and 
bought very dearly: being in a poor, 
mountainous part of the country. 
ea 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
ae 
E facility with which my laft com- 
Bey received admiffion into 
your Magazine has induced me again to 
trouble you: and, in ccnfequence, I now 
fend you A Sketch of a Journey from Co- 
penhagen to Hamburg, which, though con- 
taining little information, may perhaps 
be rendered interefting by the prefent po- 
litical ftate of the North of Europe. 
The diftance from Copenhagen to Ham- 
burg by land (as it is ‘érmed) is about 
79 Danifh miles.t There - are three 
modes of going this journey, which are ; 
* That of a cotton-manufacturer, 
+ The Danith. mile is 4! Englith miles 
nearly, i.e. 142 Danifh miles inake a devree 
of 69% miles. It is diffigult to compute the 
exact diftance in fome parts of this route, as 
the road is only meafured in the ifland of 
Zealand: -butvthe whole may be reckoned at 
about 310 Engljth miles. In the following 
ketch, when t mention diftance, it will, to 
prevent calculations, be in Englifh miles. 
Diz frp; 
