This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 edition. Excerpt: ... 1 G3 an air of neatness, and the roads themselves are better attended to than in Virginia, and the western parts of Pennsylvania; or even in the ' neighbourhood of the federal city, where they are so busily employed in ornamental architecture. This morning we had the pleasure of meeting a group of nymphs with their attendant swains, ten in number, on horseback: (for no American walks who can obtain a horse, and there are few indeed, who Gannot.) The young men were carrying umbrellas over the heads of their fair partners {fair by courtesy, ) and as there was no shew of Sundays best about them, we were the more pleased with their decent, respectable appearance. We had also the pleasure of meeting a drove of very fat oxen on their way from the banks of the Miami to Philadelphia. They might on the average weigh six hundred pounds, cost about thirty dollars, and sell at Philadelphia at about fifty or fifty-five dollars per head. June 14. Eighteen miles east of Zanesville, taking shelter from a thunder storm, we were joined by four industrious pedestrians, returning eastward from a tour of observation through this state, which is no unusual thing among labourers and artisans, who travel about, and stop occasionally to work at their callings, when their finances require a supply. All a DEGREESree in one sentiment, that there i> no part of the union, in the new settlements or the old, where an industrious man need be at a loss for the comforts of a good livelihood. One of them, a hatter, resolves to remain in his old position, in Philadelphia. There arc, in this western country, he says, more artisans than materials. Shoemakers are standing still for want of leather, and tanners, for want of hides. The land continues of the same character, --