Excerpt from Travels to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, in the States of the Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, in the Year 1802
The public are already in possession of numerous books of Travels in the United States, and many observations relative ta those countries are likewise to be met with in various Works; so that the mass of information already acquired might appear on superficial consideration to be sufficient, and to render any additional account superfluous. The greater part of those Works, however, relate almost exclusively to the United or Atlantic States: and though some of them treat of those situated to the Westward of the Allegany Mountains, yet they do so only in a slight or extremely vague manner; and from certain opinions which I entertained of those countries, I was induced to consider them as far more interesting than is generally imagined. I therefore proposed to myself, when an opportunity should occur, to travel through them; - and in June 1802, being at Philadelphia, I was enabled to carry this design into execution.
The extent of my journey could not be less than two thousand miles; and I could not, consistently with the object which had brought me for the second time into the United States, devote to it a portion of time sufficient for collecting all the facts which would obviously result from it.
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