to the state. Apropos of names, Marietta, the oldest town in the state, and of real Yankee origin and appearance, took its name from the unfortunate Queen of France.

Before we leave Ohio with our travelling companion, we will notice a mistake, which we attribute to the printer, but similar ones occur too frequently in his book. Ohio, he says, comprises an area of 4,000 square miles, and contains a population of 72,000 souls.

We must, however reluctantly, bid our friends in Ohio 'good bye,' and proceed with our author on his tour through Kentucky. We regret the change in his feelings towards the people among whom he passes; we regret still more that there should be any occasion for it. We forbear however for numerous reasons, besides the want of space, to enlarge on this consideration. We would rather resume our journey with the author through the barrens of Kentucky. Never was the king's English so shockingly misapplied. These barrens are some of the richest and most fertile lands in that rich and fertile state; at proper seasons of the year, surpassing in the beauty and the fragrance of their flowers, the most highly cultivated gardens of New England. But they are destitute of trees, and hence this name. Our author did not visit Kentucky, at a proper season to witness this gorgeous display of unadorned nature; yet he, for the most part, correctly describes the beauty and fertility of the soil, the amenity of the climate, the majesty of its primeval forests, the wide sweep of its extended and waving plains, the picturesque grandeur of its precipitous and broken streams, and, more than all, he seems to have been gratified with the abundance of its fruits, poured forth with a kind of royal and spontaneous liberality.

But we must hasten on with him, or we shall never reach the end of our journey, for as yet we are at the beginning of his tour. He visits Louisville, which he describes accurately; embarks in a keel-boat, and details the incidents of this prison discipline mode of travelling with naïveté. Like a true Englishman he is always ready for an adventure or for sport, in pursuit of which he will plunge into the forest, or jump into the skiff. We select the following extracts as a speci

men.

'We purchased below Troy (seat of justice for Crawford county, Indiana) half a young bear, at the rate of five cents per pound. Two others which were skinned, indicated an abundance of these

animals, and more application to the sport, than seems compatible with the proper cultivation of these regions. The settlers have something of a savage appearance; their features are hard, and the tone of their voice denotes a violent disposition. Our Frenchman was bargaining for a turkey, with the farmer's son, an athletic youth. On being asked three dollars for it, the Frenchman turned round to Mr B., saying, "I suppose the Kentuckians take us for fools." "What do you say, stranger," replied the youth, at the same time, laying his heavy hand across the shoulders of the poor Frenchman, in rather a rough manner. The latter looked as if thunderstruck, and retired in the true style of the Great Nation, when they get a sound drubbing. We remarked, on his return, the pains he took to repress his feelings at the coarseness of the Kentuckians. [There were two or three Kentuckians, fellow-passengers. Kentuckian is almost as general a word in the West, as Yankee is in the East.] He was, however, discreet enough to keep his peace, and he did very well; but his spirit was gone, and he never afterwards undertook to make a bargain, except with old women for a pot of milk or a dozen of eggs,'

It is worthy of notice, that along the Ohio river for a great distance, not a pint of milk, nor a pound of cheese or of butter is to be had for love or money, although multitudes of the inhabitants possess from five to fifty cows. The steamboats, however, are creating a demand, which of course will produce a supply. Next follows a real Western adventure.

'We had the enjoyment of some sport on the water; a deer was crossing the river, contracted in this place to about a thousand feet, when it was discovered by three Kentuckians, who were going to do the same. Our boat was about half a mile above the spot where we discovered the game. Four of us leaped into the skiff in order to intercept it. The deer continued its course towards the Indiana side, and it was easy for us to intercept its path. As soon as we were near enough, we aimed a blow at it with our oars, having in the hurry forgotten our guns. The deer then took the direction of the boat ;-we followed. The Kentuckians approaching from the other side, full thirty minutes elapsed before these could come up with the animal and give it a blow. Though its strength was on the decline, it did not relax its efforts.

'A second blow on the part of the Kentuckians, who were more expert in handling their oars, seemed to stun the noble animal; yet summoning up its remaining strength, it went up the river on the Kentucky side, and reached the shore, but so exhausted by VOL. XXVII.-NO. 16. 54

long swimming and the two blows from the powerful Kentuckians, that on landing it staggered and fell, without being able to ascend the high bank. Instantly one of the Kentuckians rushed upon it, cutting asunder the knee joints. The deer, taking a sudden turn, made a plunge at the Kentuckian, tearing away part of his trowsers, and lacerating his leg. So sudden was the last effort of this animal, that but for the speedy arrival of his companion, who had been assisting the third Kentuckian in drawing the skiff closer to the shore, it would infallibly have ripped up its aggressor's bowels. The dirk of the third Kentuckian ended the sport, which had terminated in a rather serious way. By this time we had also reached the field of battle. "What do you want, gentlemen?" said the wounded Kentuckian with his poniard in his hand. "Part of the deer, which you know you could not have got without our assistance." They first looked at our party of four, then at our boat, which was already at the distance of a mile and a half from us. The wounded man seating himself, asked again, "What part do you choose?"" Half the deer with the bowels, and the the tongue for the ladies." "Have you ladies on board your vessel ?" "Yes, Sir." Without uttering a word more, they skinned the venison, cleaned and divided it. We stepped aside, meanwhile, collected a couple of dollars, and offered them to the wounded man. He took the money, thanked us, and the other two carried the venison to our boat. We parted after cordially shaking hands. There was now an abundance of pigeons, venison, and bear's flesh on board our boat; the latter, when young having a very fine flavor, with rather a sweet and luscious taste. We were all partial to it except the Frenchman, who most likely took us for a species of these animals. But as thoughts are free, even in the most despotic countries, he had the privilege of thinking, without daring to utter a syllable,-assuredly the severest punishment upon one of the Great Nation.'

The Englishman will out. Go where he will, he carries with him an hereditary, instinctive aversion to a Frenchman. We notice this circumstance here, to take occasion from it to observe, that this writer is putting himself off, or his publishers are putting him off, for a foreigner of distinction. The insinuation is, that he is a German nobleman, of what rank we have not seen hinted. In this character he is noticed in the London Literary Gazette, and his Tour reviewed. Whether the reviewer was a bonâ fide believer in his Austrian or Continental origin, or whether this is only a trick of the trade, we know not. But that a German ever wrote such English as this, we neither believe, nor believe possible. Besides this, it is one of

the few facts testified to, by the first named writer on our list, that the Americans are by nature and by practice spies ;-spies on each other and spies on strangers, spies at home and spies abroad, spies in the market-place and spies at church, spies by day and spies by night, spies on the water and spies on land; and we own, that we have very considerable doubts, whether 'a foreigner of distinction' could pass twice through the United States, running the gauntlet through ten millions of Fouchés, and escape incog.

But we have a yet heavier, a more direct and certain charge to bring against him; a charge against which he or his publishers can have no honorable defence. The two works named at the head of this article were published, the former about six or eight weeks before the latter. They were most plainly written, as they were also published, by different individuals. Yet the writer of the latter has filched the whole preface from the former book, and without so much as a solitary thank ye, has made the same sentences and paragraphs occupy the same place in his own book, with an occasional alteration for purer English, and now and then an alteration for greater nonsense. The reader who will take the trouble to compare the passage about monarchists and monarchism in the two versions of the preface, will have a fair example of what we allude to. The original wisely sets forth, that the two existing American parties are the monarchists or the governors, and the republicans who are the governed. But, instead of this, our wiseacre puts the matter thus, "These parties are the monarchists, who would become governors, and the republicans, who would not be governed."

What could have induced our sensible and judicious writer to have thus turned plagiarist and ninny at once, we were for some time at a loss to divine; but are inclined to think it a piece of jugglery of the trade, with which the author of the book had no concern. Our traveller's own preface is neat, and in character. He styles it, advertisement, and as it is short, we transcribe it.

'The publication of this tour was intended for the year 1827. Several circumstances have prevented it. The American is, as far as relates to his own country, justly supposed to be prone to exaggeration. English travellers, on the contrary, are apt to underrate Brother Jonathan and his country. The author has twice seen those countries of whose present state he gives a sketch in the

following pages. He is far from claiming for his work any sort of literary merit. Truth and practical observation are his chief points. Whether his opinions and statements are correct, it remains for the reader to judge and experience to confirm.'

This is as it should be, and we are quite confident that the preface following this advertisement, was inserted either without the knowledge, or against the wishes of this sound-headed observer.

But we must quit this subject and overtake our traveller at the mouth of the Ohio.

The nearer we approached the Mississippi, the lower the country became, and the more imposing the scenery. By degrees the river Ohio loses its blue tinge, taking from the mightier stream a milky color, which changes into a muddy white when very near. This junction itself is one of the most magnificent sights. On the left hand the Ohio, half a mile wide, overpowered, as it were, by its mightier rival; in front the more gigantic Mississippi, one mile and a half broad, rolling down its vast volumes of water with incredible rapidity. Farther on, the high banks of the State of Misscuri, with some farm buildings of a diminutive appearance, owing to the great distance; in the back ground, the colossal native forests of Missouri; and lastly, to the south, these two rivers united and turning majestically to the south-west. The deep silence, which reigns in these regions, and which is interrupted only by the rushing sound of the waves, and the immense mass of water, produce the illusion, that you are no longer standing on firm ground; you are fearful lest the earth should give way to the powerful element, which, pressed into so narrow a space, rolls on with irresistible force. I had formerly seen the Falls of Niagara; but this scene, taken in a proper point of view, is in no respect inferior to that, which they present.'

We are afraid there is more beauty in this as description, than accuracy as to fact. We detect here, what we but seldom meet with in this writer, a disposition to set off his story to good advantage. He generally relates simply and only the truth. In this instance he has certainly taken the liberty to embellish it; and who will blame an intelligent Englishman, when passing from the beautiful river into the father of waters, for giving way to the associations of the spot; for yielding up judgment to the guidance of imagination? Not we. But when we come to strict matter of fact, the Mississippi instead of being a mile and a half wide, after the junction of the Ohio with