We were several days--I do not recollect how many--in reaching Louisville, in Kentucky.

I found my fellow-voyager was a teacher of military science, late from Baltimore, Maryland; he soon had a class of militia officers, to whom he gave instructions, and exhibited diagrams of military evolutions.
Louisville had all the elements of city life.

I was much interested in the place and its environs, and passed several weeks at that place.

I found organic remains of several species in the limestone rocks of the falls, and published, anonymously, in the paper some notices of its mineralogy.
When prepared to continue my descent of the river, I went to the beautiful natural mall, which exists between the mouth of the Beargrass Creek and the Ohio, where boats usually land, and took passage in a fine ark, which had just come down from the waters of the Monongahela.

It was owned and freighted by two adventurers from Maryland, of the names of Kemp and Keen.