Transcriber’s Note: Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by underscores, _like this_. Long ‘s’ (ſ) were converted to ‘s’. Footnotes were moved to the end of each book. There are two anchors to footnote [122] in André Michaux’s Travels. Obvious printing errors, such as backwards, upside down, missing or partially printed letters and punctuation, were corrected. Final stops missing at the end of sentences and abbreviations were added. In the second book, manuscript page numbers are displayed within brackets, e.g. {36}. Words may have inconsistant spelling, diacriticals and hyphenation in the text. These were left unchanged, as were obsolete and alternative spellings. Except as noted below, misspelled words were not corrected. The following were changed: answer to answers ... sometimes answers their purpose ... wool to wood ... also made of wood,... prevous to previous ... the year previous;... [Illustration: Fr. André Michaux] Early Western Travels 1748-1846 A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement Edited with Notes, Introductions, Index, etc., by Reuben Gold Thwaites Editor of “The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents,” “Wisconsin Historical Collections,” “Chronicles of Border Warfare,” “Hennepin’s New Discovery,” etc. Volume III André Michaux’s Travels into Kentucky, 1793-96. François André Michaux’s Travels West of Alleghany Mountains, 1802. Thaddeus Mason Harris’s Journal of a Tour Northwest of Alleghany Mountains, 1803 [Illustration] Cleveland, Ohio The Arthur H. Clark Company 1904 COPYRIGHT 1904, BY THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Lakeside Press R. R. DONNELLEY & SONS COMPANY CHICAGO CONTENTS OF VOLUME III PREFACE. _The Editor_ 11 I JOURNAL OF TRAVELS INTO KENTUCKY; July 15, 1793--April 11, 1796. _André Michaux_ 25 II