Comprising a Tour through the Western Country, and o residence of two Summers in the States of Ohio and Kentucky: originally written in Letters to a Brother. BY GEORGE W. OGDEN. "Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil and wine; :0:0:0: NEW-BEDFORD. PUBLISHED BY MELCHER & ROGERS, WATER-STREET. 1825. B DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: E it remembered, That, on the twenty-eighth day of May, in the forty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1823, GEORGE W. OGDEN, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "Letters from the West, comprising a tour through the Western Country, and a residence of two Summers in the States of Ohio and Kentucky: originally written in Letters to a Brother." "Fertile of corn the glebe, of oil and wine; With herds and pastures throng'd, with flocks the hills; Huge cities and high tower'd, that well might seem The seats of mightiest monarchs; and so large The prospect was, that here and there was room In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."- And also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, 'An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints." JNO. W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE THE Author of the following pages, having been employed for many years in business which necessarily required him to travel through the principal part of the United States, and having spent much time in the Western Territory of these States, he was induced to believe that it would be no small benefit to his countrymen to give a general descriptive view of it. The greater part of these letters were originally written to a brother, without the most distant view to their publication; they were generally written in haste, and have gone through very little, and some of them no alteration from the originals. But such as they are, they are now before the public; and it is most sincerely hoped they will prove, in some small degree, beneficial [iv] to those for whom they are particularly designed - the great number of emigrants who are constantly moving to that country. Whether the delineations will be found correct, and the lights and shadows judicious, must be left to the plain, unostentatious observer, and to the acute, fastidious and acrimonious connoisseur. G. W. OGDEN. New-Bedford, June 1823. |