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Show 310 APPENDIX. the neeessary document. From a recent publication, entitled" Notes on a Journey in America," &c. by Mr. Birkbeck,* which reached the city of New-York after the above was in type, it appears that the steam-boat £tna left New-Orleans on the 6th June, 18l7, and arrived at Louisville on the 14th July, perf0rming the voyage in 38 days. The distance 1383 miles, or rather more than 3G miles per day during the whole time of the voyage. The actual speed of the vessel must have exceeded, when in motion, fifty miles per <lay, to compensate time lost in stopping at various places. !fhe full value of steam, as an impulsion upon vessels, will only be demonstrated in pla,ces remote from sea-ports, upon large rivers. • No. XII. Since this Appemlix was put to press, Mr. Birkbeck, an English gentleman, already well known to the literary world, has publisheJ a work entitled, "Notes on a Journey in America, from the Coast of Virginia to the Territory of the Illinois." This publication contains much valuable information, that may be useful to either residents in, or emigrants to the valleys of Ohio or Illinois ; it is written, not without prejudice, but without any of those disgraceful antipathies, that render disgusting nine-tenths of the matter published by Europeans respecting America. If Mr. Birkbeck resiJes five years in Illinois territory, he will not then charge with laziness men who have, according to his own account, changed a wilderness to a civilized residence in three or four years. He will find that many of those apparently indolent loiterers, were examining him very much at their leisure. In our Advice to Emigrants we have taken the liberty to warn them against mistaking for laziness, a common carelessness of manners characteristic of the men of the west. The rapidity with which towns, villages, and fields have arisen froin the gloom of a desert, is a striking commentary upon the true cha· racter of this really active body of MEN. NoTE.-The5e tables ought to have made part of page 270, but were omitted in their proper place. Topographical Table of the Cotmties of the State of New-York, in· · eluded in the Ohio Valley and Basin of St. LawrP.nce. Counties. Alegbany Cattaraugu. Cayuga CortlanJt Gene ee .J efiersun Population in 1810. Chief Towns. 1,942 Angelica. 500 Hamilton. 29,843 Auburn. 8,86tl Homer. 12,588 Batavia . 15,140 Watertown~ ~· See Mr. Birkbeck's Work, p. 172. Counties. Lewis Niagara Oneida* Onondaga Ontario Seneca St. Lawrence APPENDIX. Population in 1810. 6,433 8,971 15,000 26,000 42,032 16,609 7,885 19l ,812 Chief Towns-. Martinsburg. Buffalo. ---- Onondaga. Canandaigua, Ovid. Ogdensburg. . Topographical Table of the Michigan Territory • Cou'!hes. Population 1:n 1810. Ch" ,/' fTl Detrort zeJ .1. o1~n.<;, E . 2,227 Detrort. rre J ,340 Huron 580 Michilimakinak 615 4,762 , ) , lq 311 • ·e~c~~ly the north-western section of this county ii in the Basin of St. Law- |
