Whatever they manufacture, whatever their farms produce, is always in the highest repute, and brings the highest price in the market.

They receive all strangers with great courtesy, and if they bring an introduction they are lodged and fed for any length of time they choose to stay; they are not asked to join in their labours, but are permitted to do so if they wish it.
The Big-Bone Lick was not visited, and even partially examined, without considerable fatigue.
It appeared from the account of our travellers, that the spot which gives the region its elegant name is a deep bed of blue clay, tenacious and unsound, so much so as to render it both difficult and dangerous to traverse.

The digging it has been found so laborious that no one has yet hazarded the expense of a complete search into its depths for the gigantic relics so certainly hidden there.

The clay has never been moved without finding some of them; and I think it can hardly be doubted that money and perseverance would procure a more perfect specimen of an entire mammoth than we have yet seen.

[Since the above was written an immense skeleton, nearly perfect, has been extracted.] And now the time arrived that our domestic circle was again to be broken up.