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INTRODUCTION.

"A long, deep-channeled, and clifty river, having its headsprings in the western spurs of the Cumberland Mountain, thence meandering, as it best could find its way, through an immense, but elevated, undulated plane, in a north-westwardly direction, and called by the Indians Kan-tuc-kee! with a strong emphasis, and which denominated the neighbouring forest, has been converted into KENTUCKY; and applied, by its present race of inhabitants, to the country, whose history we have undertaken to write.

"This country extends from latitude thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north of the equator, along the great river Mississippi, and the placid Ohio, on the westward; and with the high and rugged top of the Cumberland Mountain on the south-eastward, as far as the Big Sandy River, which terminates its north-eastern boundary in its whole extent.

"The exterior form of this extensive territory is reducible to no mathematical definition; its sides are unequal in length, and its line of boundary exceedingly irregular. Its extreme points, east and west, embrace seven degrees of longitude; and its extent from south to north about two degrees and forty minutes of latitude.

"The superficial content of the country, is supposed to be fifty thousand square miles; it lies within the fifth climate; and its longest day is fourteen hours and forty minutes of time. Its surface is sufficiently variegated, and abundantly channeled by streams of water. The seasons are mild, and the atmosphere healthy. There are many hills, distinguished, in consequence of their magnitude and elevation, by the name of KNOBS. Other mountains there are none, exclusive of those immediately connected with the great Cumberland Mountain.

AN

OUTLINE

OF THE

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH

IN THE

STATE OF KENTUCKY,

DURING A PERIOD OF FORTY YEARS:

CONTAINING

THE MEMOIRS OF REV. DAVID RICE,

AND SKETCHES OF THE ORIGIN AND PRESENT STATE OF

PARTICULAR CHURCHES, AND OF THE LIVES AND LA

BOURS OF A NUMBER OF MEN WHO WERE EMI

NENT AND USEFUL IN THEIR DAY.

COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY

ROBERT H. BISHOP,

Professor of History in Transylvania University.

LEXINGTON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THOMAS T. SKILLMAN,

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