You can scarcely expect a very minute description of what I have seen in my southern tour. Still I may put a few general facts before your eyes, in a new, and, perhaps, not uninteresting manner.

The eleven slave holding states of this confederation contain about 489,000 square miles of territory. If Arkansas and the Floridas (not yet states) shall be included, they will swell the amount to about 600,000, or something less than double the extent of the whole thirteen northern, or free states, including Michigan, which, together, cover a surface of 334,000 square miles. Thus, you see, that about one half of the whole computed territory of the United States is so far settled, as to have arrived at the point of establishing the state or territorial governments. But there is no probability that any other community will be speedily formed, on this side of the Rocky, Mountains, of sufficient importance to aspire to the possession of a separate government. The Prairies, and the deserts of the west, present natural obstacles to the further progress of the population in that quarter, and climate opposes a serious reason to the comfortable existence of man towards the northwest. That all these regions will, in time, come to have a population of their own, is certain; but, in a country where there is still so much room for the employment of men, that day is necessarily distant.