An Arrest--Drift-wood--Ohio Scenery--Primitive River-craft--
Early Scenes on the Western Waters--The Boatmen--Life and
Character--_Annus Mirabilis_--The Steam-engine in the West--
The Freshet--The Comet--The Earthquakes--The first Steamboat--
The _Pinelore_--The Steam-engine--Prophecy of Darwin--Results--
Sublimity--Villages--A new Geology--Rivers--Islands--Forests--
The Wabash and its Banks--New Harmony--Site--Settlement--
Edifices--Gardens--Owen and the "Social System"--Theory and
Practice--Mental Independence--Dissension--Abandonment--
Shawneetown--Early History--Settlement--Advancement--Site--
United States' Salines--Ancient Pottery 59