I examined whatever seemed worth notice in the town and its environs.

I then descended the Mississippi in a skiff about thirty miles to Herculaneum, and the next day set out, on foot, at an early hour, for the mines.

I had an idea that every effective labor should be commenced right, and, as I purposed examining the mineralogy and geology of the mine tract, I did not think that could be more thoroughly accomplished than on foot.

I ordered my baggage to follow me by the earliest returning lead teams.

True it was sultry, and much of the first part of the way, I was informed, was very thinly settled.