{vii} LETTER XV
Outline of the American Constitution—From the Frequency
of Revolutions in Europe, the Instability of the American
Republic is not to be inferred 205
LETTER XVI
State Legislatures—Predilection for Dividing Counties, Laying
out New Towns and Roads—The Influence of Slavery on
the Habits of the People—Banking 215
LETTER XVII
Depreciated Paper Money—Want of Employment-State
Expenses—The Progress of New Settlements 224
LETTER XVIII
Passage to Cincinnati—Trade—Manufactures—Institutions—Banks—Climate—Notice
of three Indian Chiefs—Remarks
on the Indian People 237
LETTER XIX
Descend the Ohio from Cincinnati to Madison—Notices of a
Scotch Settlement—Excess of Male Population—Roads—Harvest—Crops—Orchards—Timber—Elections—Methodist
Camp Meeting 250
LETTER XX
Circumstances that Retard Manufacturing Industry, and
Causes of its Prosperity 264
LETTER XXI
Circuit Court of Indiana—Lands—Crops—Salt springs—Corydon—Barrens—Caves—Tornado—Alluvial
Lands—Large
Trees—Wild Vines—Steam boats—the Falls
of the Ohio—Billious and Intermitting Fevers—Taciturnity—Americanisms 276
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