Depart for Albany--the Hudson--Albany--Cohoe's Falls--Rome--the Little Falls--forest of charred trees--"stilly night" in a swamp--fire fly--Rochester--Falls of Gennessee--Sam. Patch--an eccentric character--Falls of Niagara--the Tuscarora Indians--Buffalo--Lake Erie--the Iroquois--the Wyandots--death of Seneca John, and its consequences--ague fever--Wyandot prairie--the Delawares' mode of dealing with the Indians--the transporting of Negros to Canada CHAPTER III. Arrive at Marion--divorces--woodlands--Columbus--land offices--population, &c. Shaking Quakers--kidnapping free Negros--Cincinnati--the farmers of Ohio--a corn-husking frolic--qualifications necessary to Senators, Legislators, and Electors--a camp-meeting--militia officers' muster--Presbyterian parsons--price of land, cattle, &c.--fever and ague CHAPTER IV. Set out for New Harmony--the roads--a backwoodsman--the journey--peaches--casualties--travelling--New Harmony--M. Le Seur--barter--excursion down the Wabash--the co-operative community--Robert Owen CHAPTER V. Depart for St. Louis--Albion--the late Messrs. Birkbeck and Flowers--Hardgrove's prairie--the roads--the Grand prairie--prairie wolf--mode of training dogs--Elliott's inn--inhabitants of Illinois--ablutions--coal--soil and produce--the American Bottom--St Louis--monopolies--Fur companies--incivility of a certain Major--trapping expedition--trade with Santa Fé--lead mines--Carondalot--Jefferson barracks--discipline--visit to a slave-holder--the Ioway hostages--Indian investigation--character of the Indians. CHAPTER VI Leave St. Louis--Indian mounds--remains of ancient fortifications--burial caverns--mummies--Flint's description of a mummy--the languages of America--town making--the Indian summer--population, &c. of Illinois--the prairie hen--the Turkey buzzard--settlers--forest in autumn--a gouging scrape--the country--extent and population of Indiana--hogs--a settler in bottom land--the sugar maple--roads--a baptism CHAPTER VII Set out for New Orleans--Louisville--Mississippi steam-boats--the Ohio--the Mississippi--sugar plantations--the valley of the Mississippi--New Orleans--Quadroons--slavery--a Methodist slavite--runaway Negros--incendiary fires at Orleans--liberty of the press--laws passed by the legislature of Louisiana--Miss Wright--public schools--yellow fever--the Texas CHAPTER VIII. Depart for Louisville--tellandsea, or Spanish moss--Natchez--the yellow fever--cotton plantations--Mississippi wood-cutters--freshets--planters, sawyers, and snags--steam-boat blown up--the Chickesaws--hunting in Tennessee--electioneering--vote by ballot--trade on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers--the People--the President's veto--finances--government banks--Kentucky--the Kentuckians--court-houses--an election--universal suffrage--an Albino--Diluvian reliqua CHAPTER IX. The political condition of the Indians--Missionaries--the letter of Red-jacket--the speech of the wandering Pawnee chief CHAPTER X.