been
thrown from his horse, and killed by the fall. She believed them. She
was living in the country, when, about nine months after her widowhood,
her brother rode down to see her, and as soon as he arrived went into
his room to shave and dress. The window of his room, which was on the
ground-floor, looked out upon the garden, and it being summer time, it
was open. He tore off a portion of an old newspaper to wipe his razor.
The breeze caught it, and carried it away into the garden until it
stopped at the feet of his sister, who happened to be walking.
Mechanically she took up the fragment, and perceiving her husband's name
upon it, she read it. It contained a full account of the duel in which
he lost his life! The shock she received was so great that it unsettled
her mind for nearly two years. She had but just recovered, and for the
first time re-appeared in public, when she was pointed out to me.

Returning to Guyandotte, one of the travellers wished to see the view
from the Hawk's Nest, or rather wished to be able to say that he had
seen it. We passed the spot when it was quite dark, but he persisted in
going there, and, to help his vision, borrowed one of the coach-lamps
from the driver. He returned, and declared that with the assistance of
the lamp he had had a very excellent view, down a precipice of several
hundred feet. His bird's-eye view by candle-light must have been very
extensive. After all, it is but to be able to say that they had been,
to such a place, or have seen such a thing, that, more than any real
taste for it, induces the majority of the world to incur the trouble and
fatigue of travelling.

VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR.

I was informed that a camp-meeting was to be held about seven miles from
Cincinnati, and, anxious to verify the accounts I had heard of them, I
availed myself of this opportunity of deciding for myself. We proceeded
about five miles on the high road, and then diverged by a cross-road
until we arrived at a steep conical hill, crowned with splendid forest
trees without underwood; the trees being sufficiently apart to admit of
wagons and other vehicles to pass in every direction. The camp was
raised upon the summit of this hill, a piece of table-land comprising
many acres. About an acre and a half was surrounded on the four sides
by cabins built up of rough boards; the whole area in the centre was
fitted up with planks, laid about a foot from the ground, as s