Excerpt from Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country: Through the States of Ohio and Kentucky, A Voyage Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and a Trip Through the Mississippi Territory and Part of West FloridaAt this point Cuming's tour is concluded. In orda to give completeness to the work, however, the first editor added thejoumalofavoyagetakenin 1799 byagentle man of accurate observation, a passenger in a New Orleans boat. From just above Bayou Pierre, this anonymous author departed on the ninth of February for New Orleans, where he arrived on the twenty-third of the same month. Embarking therefrom March 12, he reached Philadelphia after a month's voyage via Havana and the Atlantic shore.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.