E-text prepared by Roberta Staehlin, Pat McCoy, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 36613-h.htm or 36613-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/36613/pg36613-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36613/36613-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/kentuckianinnewy01carurich THE KENTUCKIAN IN NEW-YORK. Or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. BY A VIRGINIAN. "Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon."--_Burns._ In Two Volumes. VOL. I. New-York: Published by Harper & Brothers, No. 82 Cliff-Street. 1834. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, By Harper & Brothers, In the Clerk's Office of the Southern District of New-York. * * * * * NEARLY READY. HELEN. A new Tale. By MARIA EDGEWORTH--forming the _tenth_ volume of Harper's Uniform Edition of her Works. Containing two beautiful Engravings on steel. TALES AND SKETCHES,--such as they are. By W. L. STONE, Esq. In 2 vols. 12mo. THE FROLICS OF PUCK. In 2 vols. 12mo. THE KENTUCKIAN IN NEW-YORK. By A VIRGINIAN. In 2 vols. 12mo. GUY RIVERS. A Novel. By the Author of "Martin Faber." In 2 vols. 12mo. MRS. SHERWOOD'S WORKS. Uniform Edition. With Engravings on steel. 12mo. PAULDING'S WORKS. Uniform Edition. Revised and corrected by the Author. 12mo. * * * * * THE KENTUCKIAN IN NEW-YORK. CHAPTER I. Towards the latter part of the summer of 18--, on one of those cool, delightful, and invigorating mornings which are frequent in the southern regions of the United States, there issued from the principal hotel on the valley-side of Harper's Ferry two travellers, attended by a venerable and stately southern slave. The experienced eye of the old ferryman, as he stood in his flat-bottomed boat awaiting the arrival of this party, discovered at once that our travellers were from the far South.