na. yet even in the woods they are not purity are discovered. M. Micompletely wild. Salt provisions chaux now arrives within about is another important article of 700 miles from Baltimore and commerce ; and in the first six Philadelphia, and about 400 miles months of 1802, 72,000 barrels of from Richmond. We shall, theredried pork, and 2,485 of salt, were fore, conclude our account of his exported. Poultry are rarely journey, with a few remarks on bred, from the injury they might Tenessce in general. This state is do to the crops of Indian corn. situated to the south of Kentucky, Of the religious sects, the metho- between Ohio and the Alleghany dists and anabaptists are most ou- mountains. It is nearly square, merous. Education, even in these its length exceeding its breadth sequestered regions, is carefully only by about sixty miles in 300, attended to. its shortest diameter ; and was Nashville is the old town in admitted into the union as an inTenesse, but has no manufactory dependent state in 1796. . It foror publick establishment. Every merly was a part of North Caroli. thing is very dear, as the boats Its river, Tenessee, with the are obliged to go above Pittsburgh, Holston, has a navigable course on the Ohio, before they meet for near 800 miles, interspersed, with the river Cumberland, on during the summer, with shoals. which Nashville is built. The It is not closely inhabited ; and. author still approaches Carolina, its chief productions are cotton in his progress to Knoxville ; and and iron : the soil is fat and in his journey passes the moun- clayey. tains of Cumberland, to which the We have already offered our name of the Wilderness is assign- reasons or our apologies for the ed. These mountains divide east length to which our article has and west Tenessee, which thus se- extended ; and have reprehendperated, may probably become ed, though perhaps without suffidistinct states. One of the cient severity, the gross errors branches of theCumberland is sty- of the translator and printer. led “ Roaring River,” from its Another translation, with a map, numerous cascades. The right would prove a valuable acquisibank of this River rises from 80 tion to the geographer, the scito 100 feet in some places, and we entifick enquirer, and the commention it particularly, since it mercial speculatist ;' for though, rests upon a bed of chistus, the as we have said, we do not imfirst instance of this rock recorded plicitly trust all the representain the author's observations. In tions, the great features of nature the caverns in the neighbourood, are carefully, and, we believe, probably calcareous, extensive accurately copied. I. 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