Sketches Of A Tour To The Western Country

Author : F. Cuming
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ISBN 13 : 9781332118052
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country written by F. Cuming and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Florida We devote the fourth volume of our series of Western Travels to the reprint of Fortescue Cuming's Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country - the tour having been made in 1807-1809, the publication itself issuing from a Pittsburg press in 1810. Of Cuming himself, we have no information save such as is gleaned from his book. He appears to have been an Englishman of culture and refinement, who had travelled extensively in other lands - notably the West Indies, France, Switzerland, and Italy. It is certain that he journeyed to good purpose, with an intelligent, open mind, free from local prejudices, and with trained habits of observation. Cuming was what one may call a good traveller - he endured the inconveniences, annoyances, and vicissitudes of the road, especially in a new and rough country, with equanimity and philosophic patience, deliberately making the best of each days happenings, thus proving himself an experienced and agreeable man of the world. The journeys narrated were taken during two succeeding years. The first, in January, 1807, was a pedestrian tour from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. Arriving in the latter city on the second of February, after twenty-seven days upon the road, the remainder of the winter, the spring, and the early summer were passed at Pittsburg. On the eighteenth of July following, our traveller took boat from Pittsburg, and made his way down the Ohio to the Kentucky entrepot at Maysville - where he arrived the thirtieth of the month. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.