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the Tower as you can with safety- James Rich settled on the right bank at this place-- Cape Gerardeau where I landed on the 17th is a flourishing little Place situated most delightfully on an eminence which command a fine view of the river, this place has another most fertile tract of country Back of it, in that country which is filling-up very fast with emigrants from the neighboring Stutes, and bids fair one day to become a Rich and flourishing place- The Earthquakes were felt severely here having t[h]rown down, or cracked every chimney in the place and Ruined two handsome Brick Buildings which were not quite finished- Left the Ca.peon the 18 and passd- the settlement of Tiwappita, which is very considerable on the right Bank-at the Lower end of the settlemL took leave of the last high Land which appears on the Right Ba.nk of the River from this place to the Balize landed near the mouth of Ohio on the Right Bank- the next day passd by the mouth of Ohio and st-0pt a fiew hours at Birds to get some vegetables &c found them very obligeing and hospitable, while I lay here a chorus pasd· by from Pittsburgh-and put off just as a second one was coming out of the Ohio with which we floated in company the Balance of the day she was from Marrietta The Missippi is not as wide nor by any means has so beautifull and :Majestic ap- pearance as the Ohio has at their junction had a short glimpse of the clear pelucid water of the Ohio as I passd· between the two currents which however onely servd· to highten the thick muddy appearance of the Mississippi by the forcible contrast which the n.proximation of the two waters presented- The settlements from the mouth of Ohio are very thin and; wretched the Land on the Right shore being so low and swampy as to be unfit for cultivation and that of the left belonging to the Uhickasha nation of Indians-- made· a good landing about sun down on Wolf Island at the House of a Mr Hunter, who was rather More than hospitable being anxious to reclaim by his acts of appar- ently disinterested hospitality, that character which some of his deeds while living near N Madrid had renderd suspitious, The next day the 19 th landed at N Madred- The Philanthropic emotions of the soul are never more power- fully exercised than when called on [to] witness some great and general calamity originating either in the cupidity and oppression of Governments which envolves the defenceless Subject in Misery and want and even ~enders his life Precarious, or in the wise Dis- pensations of Providence who withholding the ordinary aid in bringing_to maturity the natural productions of the husbanman with Famine or puting in motion the terrible engines of his Power and by some extraordinary convulsions throwing a hitherto •fertile
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