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532 Observations made during a Tour in the United States. [July 1, 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
©BSERVATIONS made during a@ TOUR 
through the UNITED STATES of AME- 
RICA.—NO. XVI. 
SIR, 
INCE my last, the country I have 
attempted to introduce to the at- 
tention of your readers has become more 
interesting than ever, in consequence of 
its having been made the deposit of 
stores and provisions, said to be cullected 
in support of a traiterous design to di- 
vide this Union, and for the formation of 
@ western empire, under the direction of 
Adam Burr, late vice-president of the 
United States, the metropolis of which 
was to be New Orleans. Although these 
letters are not intended to investigate 
such schemes, yet the author may be per- 
mitted to say, that 1m a nation self-go- 
verned like this, where the laws are 
enacted by the immediate representa- 
tives of the people, ou whom they uqually 
act with their constituents; where-no 
individual is exempt from the obligations 
of law, and where the sovereignty is ac- 
knowledged to be in, and used for, the 
benefit of the whole; where, in one 
word, equality so correctly- exists as in 
the United States, every such attempt 
requires the most decided opposition and 
detestation. In a nation so governed, 
such efforts resemble suicide, and no lan- 
guage can be used sutiiciently streng in 
their ‘reprehension. Were they unsup- 
ported by foreign force, their machina- 
tions might be despised as the effect of 
disappointed aimbition, of hopes which 
hypocrisy and selfishness have blasted. 
There is reason to fear that the traitérs 
who have contemplated this infamous 
project have received, and expect more, 
foreign aid. That it may prove unsuc- 
cessful, i is not only the wish of every pa- 
trict citizen of the United States, but 
must be of every philanthropist who can 
understand the progression of the prin- 
ciples of civil hberty in this country. 
Part of. Mr. Burr’s vessels, ammunition, 
provisions, &c. were deposited at Beevor- 
town, and have there been seized by the 
all-penetrating activity of the adminis- 
tration. On this occasion, the attach- 
ment of the constituted authoritise aad 
citizens of the state of Ohio to the 
Union, has been not less conspicuous than 
honourable: they have fully proved that, 
although a few ambitious individuals may 
attempt to mislead a nation, a happy 
people will never ae! their g government, 
a contented people will never rebel. 
We proceeded from Windsor to Har- 
persield. The land in this latter town is 
so rich, that the original proprietors, be= 
fore they could agree in the division of 
it, were ‘compelled to add other lands at - 
a distance, less valuable, so as to reduce 
the lots to a medial vaiue. Ia truth, the 
soilisa perfect marrow, and, as may be 
expected, the trees lofty, especially the 
elins, which are very beautiful and ma- 
jestic. Hemlock is far from being a com- 
mon tree in the neighbourhood “of Lake 
Erie; but in this township there are two 
beautifal groves of it, most charmingly 
adapted for speculation and reflection ; 
the widely distended arms of these trees, 
intermixing with each other, the dark, 
yet everlasting, green of their foliage, 
producing a gloom, never yet illumined 
by the solar ray, and which, when con- 
nected with the eternal silence of the fo= 
rest, is highly inductive of that state of 
mind, which, perhaps, is the most grate- 
ful,-and which is well known by the term 
of castle-building. ‘Those who can feel 
and estimate this state of mind, need 
seek no more favoured spot for its en- 
joyment than the neighbourhood of 
Grand River, as it passes through the 
township of Harpersfeld. 
It was on thé 15th of May that we 
wandered on the high and romantic cliffs 
of G:and-River, or, as it was called by 
the Aborigines, Geauga, i in Harpersfield ; 
the grass being then at least fifteen 
inches high, and the river at ah immense 
distance below, dashing over the rocks ; 
the high cliffs covered with lofty timber, 
and the river then crowded with muska- 
linge. (This fish is, I believe, not known 
in natural history by this name, or, ué 
least, spelling; but’is as good as cod 
whieh salted, and resembles veal when 
fresh). In order to get to the river, we 
had to lead our horses down a natural 
stair-case, along the rocks. Having 
crossed the river, and ascended the other 
side, high in air, perched on an enormous 
elm, at the point of a high rock, for the 
first time I saw seated in soleran dignity 
a male and female bald, or American 
eagle: at the immense distance they 
were from us, they seemed but as two 
white specks, surrounded’ by the vernal: 
foliage. The earth was as generally 
covered on this day with a’ small red 
berry, resembling, in taste and appear- 
ance, the haw, as I ever saw your mea- 
dows with daisies. It is fixed on a sin- 
gle stem, is called winter-clover, much 
sought after by the Indians, and said 
strongly to indicate a good soil. 
When we first arrived at Tarpers- 
field, it contained but twenty-seven fami- 
lies, but thirteen others arrived before 
a we 
