Travels in the United States, etc.,: during 1849 and 1850./ By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley.

DESCRIPTION OF LOUISVILLE.
Her mightiest solitudes and paths unknown,
Her deep-vailed shrines, and well-springs pure and lone.
America's great Mind, the true New World,
Launched like the sun,'gainst th' elder darkness hurled;
Hung, as The Heavens are hung, above them all,
And holding their sublimest powers in thrall!
It must be confessed that Cincinnati, the pride of the banks of
"La belle Riviere," is in fact what its nickname, "Porkopolis,"
implies-the Empire City of Pigs, as well as of the West; but it
is fortunate that they condescendingly allow human beings to share
that truly magnificent location with them.
CHAPTER XVII.
Description of Louisville-Its Trade and Natural Productions-Its Soil and
Rivers-The Kentucky Caves-A Visit to one-Its Avenues, Domes,
Cataracts, Pits, and Rivers-A Sea in it-The vociferous Bats-Echoes
of the Cave-The Cave once the Residence of consumptive Patients The eyeless Fish-The narrow Path and the fat Englishman-Vast
Extent of the Cave-Verses suggested by it.
WE have had a very interesting expedition to the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky. But, first, a word of Louisville itself.
It is a fine city, and the best lighted, I think, that I have seen
in the United States. I imagine the Louisvillians are proud of
this, as they have their diligences start at four o'clock in the winter's morning! It is the chief commercial city of Kentucky, and
lies on the south bank of the Ohio. The canal from Portland enables large steamers to come to the wharves. An extensive trade
is carried onl here, and there are rnanufactories of various descriptions, the facilities offered by the enormous water-power of the
region assisting greatly in the development of this department of
industry. There are numerous factories, foundries, woolen and
cotton mills, flour-mnills, &c. The population is about forty-seven
thousand: in 1800, it was only six hundred. Kentucky is a very
prosperous state.
The natural growths of the soil are-the black cherry, black
walnut, chestnut, honey-locust, buck-eye, pawpaw, mulberry, sugarmaple, ash, elm, white-thorn, cotton-wood, and abundance of grapevines, and various others. Part of the country we traversed in
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