Its botany, its fresh water conchology, and its zoology and ichthyology, received the attention that a rapid transit permitted.

Its soil, productions, and climate were the topics of daily observation.

In short, no exploration had before been made which so completely revealed the features and physical geography of so large a portion of the public domain.

And the literary and scientific public waited with an intense desire for the result of these observations in every department.
The first letter I received on my return route from that eventful tour, was at the post of Green Bay, where a letter from J.T.Johnston, Esq., of New York, awaited me: "Since you departed," he observes, "nothing of importance has occurred, either in the moral or political world.

The disturbances which disgrace the kingdom of Great Britain are, and still continue to be, favored by a few factionists.