The beef is excellent, and the highest price when we were there, four cents (about two-pence) the pound.  The mutton was inferior, and so was veal to the eye, but it ate well, though not very fat; the price was about the same.  The poultry was excellent; fowls or full-sized chickens, ready for table, twelve cents, but much less if bought alive, and not quite fat; turkeys about fifty cents, and geese the same.  The Ohio furnishes several sorts of fish, some of them very good, and always to be found cheap and abundant in the market.  Eggs, butter, nearly all kinds of vegetables, excellent, and at moderate prices.  From June till December tomatoes (the great luxury of the American table in the opinion of most Europeans) may be found in the highest perfection in the market for about sixpence the peck.  They have a great variety of beans unknown in England, particularly the lima-bean, the seed of which is dressed like the French harico; it furnishes a very abundant crop, and is a most delicious vegetable:  could it be naturalised with us it would be a valuable acquisition.  The Windsor, or broad-bean, will not do well there; Mr. Bullock had them in his garden, where they were cultivated with much care; they grew about a foot high and blossomed, but the pod never ripened.  All the fruit I saw exposed for sale in Cincinnati was most miserable.  I passed two summers there, but never tasted a peach worth eating.  Of apricots and nectarines I saw none; strawberries very small, raspberries much worse; gooseberries very few, and quite uneatable; currants about half the size of ours, and about double the price; grapes too sour for tarts; apples abundant, but very indifferent, none that would be thought good enough for an English table; pears, cherries, and plums most miserably bad.  The flowers of these regions were at least equally inferior:  whether this proceeds from want of cultivation or from peculiarity of soil I know not, but after leaving Cincinnati, I was told by a gentleman who appeared to understand the subject, that the state of Ohio had no indigenous flowers or fruits.  The water-melons, which in that warm climate furnish a delightful refreshment, were abundant and cheap; but all other melons very inferior to those of France, or even of England, when ripened in a common hot-bed.

From the almost total want of pasturage near the city, it is difficult for a stranger to divine how milk is furnished for its supply, but we soon learnt that there are more ways than one of keeping a cow.  A large proportion of the families in the town, particularly of the poorer class, have one, though apparently without any accommodation whatever for it.  These animals are fed morning and evening at the door of the house, with a good mess of Indian corn, boiled with water; while they eat, they are milked, and when the operation is completed the milk-pail and the meal-tub retreat into the dwelling, leaving the republican cow to walk away, to take her pleasure on the hills, or in the