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Cuming’s Tour to the Western Country

by Fortescue Cuming

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{iii} Contents

OF EACH CHAPTER IN PART

CHAPTER I
Commencement of journey—Schuylkill bridge—Schuylkill river—Downingstown—Brandywine creek—Pequea creek—New Holland—Conestoga creek and bridge—Lancaster25
CHAP. II
Elizabethtown—Susquehannah river—Harrisburgh33
CHAP. III
Conestoga massacre—Carlisle and Dickinson college42
CHAP. IV
Shippensburgh—Strasburgh—Horse valley49
CHAP. V
Fannetsburgh—Juniata—Bloody run—Bedford55
CHAP. VI
Allegheny mountains—Somerset—A murder61
CHAP. VII
Laurel and Chesnut hills—Greensburgh—Pittsburgh70
CHAP. VIII
Pittsburgh—Lawyers—Clergymen76
CHAP. IX
Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers87
CHAP. X
Georgetown—Little Beaver creek100
CHAP. XI
Steubenville—Charlestown106
CHAP. XII
Warren—Wheeling—Canton111
CHAP. XIII
Little and Big Grave creeks—Monuments114
CHAP. XIV
Muskingum—Marietta—Fortifications120
CHAP. XV
Little Kenhawa—Blennerhasset’s island126
CHAP. XVI
Little and Big Hockhocking—Belleville130
CHAP. XVII
Le Tart’s falls—Graham’s station135
CHAP. XVIII
Point Pleasant—Battle—Dunmore’s campaign140
{iv} CHAP. XIX
Galliopolis—Green’s bottom—Hanging rock147
CHAP. XX
Big Guiandot—Great Sandy—Snakes153
CHAP. XXI
French Grant—Little Sciota—Portsmouth156
CHAP. XXII
Sciota—Alexandria—Salt-works161
CHAP. XXIII
Brush creek—Manchester—Maysville165
CHAP. XXIV
Washington, K.—May’s and Blue licks—Salt furnaces170
CHAP. XXV
Nicholasville—Millersburgh—Massacre176
CHAP. XXVI
Lexington181
CHAP. XXVII
Leesburgh—Frankfort189
CHAP. XXVIII
Paris—Frank Bird—Hospitality196
CHAP. XXIX
Commence a journey from Maysville through the state of Ohio to Pittsburgh201
CHAP. XXX
Bainbridge—Arrival at Chilicothe208
CHAP. XXXI
The Sciota—Chilicothe—Monuments215
CHAP. XXXII
Hockhocking—New Lancaster—Zanesville219
CHAP. XXXIII
Wills’s creek—Cambridge—Beymer’s226
CHAP. XXXIV
St. Clairsville—Indian Wheeling230
CHAP. XXXV
Little Wheeling—Alexandria or Hardscramble234
CHAP. XXXVI
Washington, Penn.—Canonsburgh—Pittsburgh238
CHAP. XXXVII
Pittsburgh—Panorama around it242
CHAP. XXXVIII
Descends the Ohio again—Columbia, Newport, Cincinnati, Port Williams, Louisville, falls255
{v} CHAP. XXXIX
Blue river—Horse machinery boat261
CHAP. XL
Green river—Henderson—Cotton machine265
CHAP. XLI
Wabash river, Shawanee town, Rocking cave269
CHAP. XLII
Cumberland river, Tennessee, Fort Massac273
CHAP. XLIII
Mississippi, New Madrid, Little Prairie279
CHAP. XLIV
Indian warriours, their manners and customs284
CHAP. XLV
Fort Pike, Chickasaw Indians, Fort Pickering289
CHAP. XLVI
Settlements of Arkansas and White river295
CHAP. XLVII
Grand lake, Anecdote of a Carolinean300
CHAP. XLVIII
Walnut Hills, Fort M’Henry, Bayou Pierre305
CHAP. XLIX
Commence a tour by land, Cole’s creek, Greenville310
CHAP. L
Washington, Natchez, Mississippi territory318
CHAP. LI
Homochito, Fort Adams, Pinkneyville326
CHAP. LII
Enter West Florida, Thomson’s creek331
CHAP. LIII
Baton Rouge, Spanish governour, Mrs. O’Brien’s339
CHAP. LIV
Remarks on the climate, soil, manners, face of the country, productions, &c.347
The description of the Mississippi continued from Bayou Pierre to New Orleans—Thence a sea voyage to Philadelphia, by another hand354

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