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from the sultry heat of summer. Every thing here wears a more southern aspect, the sultry heat, the luxuriant & various foliage, the sprouting bottom plants, the cool costumes & the negroes all bespeak an approach to the Tropics. The trees mostly found here are the beech, sugar Maple, Sycamore, buckeye, walnut, tulip poplar, Elm & the usual varieties of rock, these are often [unclear: --ed} with the most graceful festoons of grape vines & other running plants & the May apple appears in large patches underneath their shade. In the midst of blue grass & other grapes of nutritious character -- Looking into the cool shade beneath these groves the light is seem in the distance falling here & there on the emerald carpet & presenting an enticing vanity of effect. My companions during the day were increased by the addition of a "Kaintuck hauss trader" a giant of gaunt & bony frame wtih cunning eyes & rich firm mouth & a farmer of thin nervous aspect who advocated slave labour & "wasn't to be put down, no whar!" -- Ar, bar, what, har, thar etc are the pronunciation of air, bear, hair, etc-- & the observation "We gwine quite [unclear: purt?]" [interlineal: fast, lively] has been addressed to me more than once -- Nashville is beautifully situated in the midst of a fertile country & on the banks of the Cumberland river. It stands on a rock of limestone the soil being about 3 to 5 feet deep. It is reguarly built & most of the houses have gardens attached. Many of the private residences of handsome specimens of domestic architecture & the public are many of them elegant, the