Travels through the western country in the summer of 1816

the long version

“This Journey was undertaken with a view to explore the Wabash Lands in the New Purchase. It is a work of sterling merit. The author (a Quaker) was a practical engineer, and on the whole, the work, although very unpretentious in style, is well worthy of attention; The route of the author was down the Ohio, stopping at all the towns and places of interest on both sides of the river; the description of the journey to Vincennes, occupies the first half of the volume.” - Peter G. Thomson, A Bibliography of the State of Ohio (1880)