In Nashville, of the one hundred and twenty houses but eight were of brick, and most of them were mere log huts.

Cincinnati was a poor little village.

Cleveland consisted of but two or three log cabins, at a time when there were already a thousand settlers in its neighborhood on the Connecticut Reserve, scattered out on their farms.

[Footnote: "Historical Collections of Ohio," p.

120.] Natchez was a very important town, nearly as large as Lexington.