Volume 2

Travels in North-America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782 / By the Marquis de Chastellux ; Translated from the French by an English gentleman [J. Kent]. Who resided in America at that period ; with notes by the translator.

  • Chastellux, François Jean, marquis de, 1734-1788.
Date:
1787
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Credit: Travels in North-America, in the years 1780, 1781, and 1782 / By the Marquis de Chastellux ; Translated from the French by an English gentleman [J. Kent]. Who resided in America at that period ; with notes by the translator. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    La] to thé winding banks, er rather the preci- ‘* pice of Kentucke, and of the river Dick, é merit the firft rank. The aftbnifhed eye beholds, almoft on every fide, 3 or 400 feet: of a calcareous rock, perpendi- cularly cut; in fome places a beautiful white marble, curioufly fhaped in arches or in columns, or piled upon a fine | ftone.-for building... Thefe precipices, as Fhave already obferved, refemble the fides of a deep trench, or a canal, the earth around being level, except in the courfe of the rivulets, and covered with groves of red cedar; you can only crofs this river at certain places, one of which is worthy of admiration: It is a high- fa Way. formed by the buffaloes, and wide Per i Dd 3 is inauaté enough wn 66 74 €¢ 6€ ce 66. 66 €6 6 Lay (44 66 cg Lai ¢ ce ing from one ‘quarter, it nad feud its slay panty ‘6 as it continues to do, through the gulph between és Florida and Cuba, carrying with itthe loom and © fand it may have fcooped from the country it ft had occupied, part of which it! may have depo« - 4 fited on the fhores of North America, and with « part formed the banks of the Newfoundland. Tranflator adds, but they are the fublime vifions of “4a great and enlightened mind. TRANSLATOR.