. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. situated in the middle partof the state, and lies on the waters of Salt river : Bounded onthe north by Spencer ; east by Washington and Marion ; southby Larue ; west by Hardin ; and north-west by Bullitt. The sur-face of the county is undulating The soil in the northern por-tion is of an excellent quality, and well adapted to the growthof hemp ; while that of the southern portion is rather thin, thoughthere are detached parcels of good land, p
. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. situated in the middle partof the state, and lies on the waters of Salt river : Bounded onthe north by Spencer ; east by Washington and Marion ; southby Larue ; west by Hardin ; and north-west by Bullitt. The sur-face of the county is undulating The soil in the northern por-tion is of an excellent quality, and well adapted to the growthof hemp ; while that of the southern portion is rather thin, thoughthere are detached parcels of good land, particularly in the bot- 474 NELSON COUNTY. toms of the Beech and Rolling forks, and Pottinger creeks. Thiscounty grows almost every variety of grain and grasses. Theexports are, principally, hemp, flour, hay, corn, apples, hogs, cat-tle, horses, mules, and whisky. Number of acres of land in Nelson, 252,597 ; average value oflands per acre, $ ; total valuation of taxable property in1846, $4,967,176; number of white males over tuenty-one yearsof age, 1,987; number of children between live and sixteen yearsold, 1,754. Population in 1840, 13, CATHOLIC COLLEGE, BARDSTOWN, KY. The towns of Nelson are, Bardstown, Bloomfield, Fairfield*Chaplin and New-Haven. Bardstown, the principal town andcounty seat, is situated on an elevated plain, three-fourths of amile north of the Beech fork of Salt river, about fifty milesfrom Frankfort, and forty miles south-west from Louisville. Itcontains a fine brick court-house, four churches, (Baptist, Metho-dist, Presbyterian and Roman Catholic,) fourteen lawyers, ninephysicians, ten dry goods stores, one drug store, several grocerystores, one bagging factory, one wool factory, one steam cottonfactory, and twenty-five mechanics shops. Population about2,000. St. Joscpfis College, located in this town, was founded in FEMALE COURAGE. 475 1819, and is under the control of the Roman Catholic denomina-tion. Rev. Edward McMahon is president, assisted
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