This notebook contains Charles Lyell’s notes from April 5th to April 14, 1846. The notebook starts in Louisville, Kentucky as Lyell travels north along the Ohio River in the steamer Ben Franklin, arriving in Cincinnati on April 7th. On April 13th Lyell resumed travel up the Ohio River, bound for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The index is located in the back of the notebook on eight unnumbered pages. Notes are in pencil and ink.

Lyell uses his Scientific Notebooks to gather evidence, based on both his own observation, by reviewing other people's works, by correspondence, asking questions and analyses. The language used in this index is historical, can be discriminatory and may cause offence.

The following table of contents is Lyell's own words, copied from Lyell's own "Index", found at the end of the notebook, transcribed from digital surrogates. When known, Lyell's abbreviations and contractions have been expanded using brackets [ ]. When writing is unclear, and transcription is not possible, this is denoted using [...]. The inclusion of [sic] indicates the misspelling of a word is deliberate and taken from the notebook. Dates have beeninserted at the beginning of the appropriate section. In the index, an X or ? is written in the left margin to mark certain entries.

Index
Ap[ril] 5 [1846]
p. 1.a X Louisville K[entucky] Dr. Yandell
p. 1.a X Oregon - offer by Eng[land] of Arbitration
p. 1.b X Christianity precocious infant
p. 1.b X - [Christianity] baptism of grown up girl
p. 1.b X “Your mother the church”
p. 1.b X “Nonsense & philosophy of 15th century
p. 1.c X Sunday Schools for negros
p. 1.c X Negro Preacher “Our ancestors in Eden”
p. 1.c X Negro Methodist church “nodding”
p. 1.c X - [Negro Methodist] Invitat[ion] to love feast - exclamat[ions]
p. 1.c X Negro Education
p. 2 X Equality - return to civilization
p. 2 ? Sympathies of educat[ed] person differing in politics
p. 2 X Escape from Court & democracy similar
p. 3 X Slavery Kentuckyite & white negress marry
p. 3 ? Capitol punishment for murder for money
p. 4 G Flood & fall of water in Ohio R[iver].
p. 4 G. Loess like loam with[out] shells in Ohio
p. 4 G X Coralline limst[one]. Fall’s Louisville vis [‘vis’ interlined]
p. 4 ? Vestiges much read
p. 4 Spring season, elms in leaf
[Note: The above index line is on p. 6.]
p. 6 X War why recruits forthcoming, excitability
p. 6 X Emancipat[ion] K[entucky] & Ten[essee]
p. 6 X Kentucky man marrying white slaves
p. 6 X War Southerners w[ould] be for naturally
p. 6 X - [War] why favored by demagogues
[Note: The above index line is on p. 8.]
p. 8 X Negro Preacher power of mimicry
p. 8 ? Peuseyite [sic Puseyite] - had gone thru’ law etc
p. 8 X Geology Button Mould hill, section
p. 10 X View from summit of, Ohio Valley
p. 10 ? - [View] Lichen on top of
p. 10 X K[entucky] & Louisville, Emancipation in
p. 10 X - [Kentucky] Convection w[ould] free & rid K[entucky] of slaves
[Note: The above 2 index lines are on p. 11.]
p. 12 G. Geology Dr. Cobbs collect[ion]
p. 12 Senators to Congress how elected
p. 12 X Emigrants swell democratic & anti-English ranks
p. 12 X Democracy. Experim[ent] in the U.S. bungled
p. 14 X Negro Preacher Louisville
p. 14 X Rotation propos[ed] for Profess[ional] chairs
p. 14 ? K[entucky] Convention w[ould] emancipate & make Judges depend[ant] on people
p. 14 ? Slaves K[entucky] & Brazil. English imports of
p. 14 X Negros emphatic gesticulat[ions] of
p. 16 X Climate first year not injurious
p. 16 X Methodist Preacher black man
p. 16 X Negros building their own church
p. 18 X - [Negros] whites in Engl[and] when most like best servants [‘servants’ interlined]
Apr[il] 7 [1946]
p. 18 X “Paul le Kock Bulwer of France.”
p. 20 G. Geology, Louisville loess
p. 20 G. - [Geology] Utica silurian strata
p. 22 X Manners, Eye-glass
p. 22 X Butcher gutting 800 hogs per day
p. 24 X Small town “nimium vicina Cremonae”
p. 24 Children none shy, as in Engl[and]
p. 26 ? Puseyism. Episcopal church anti-enquiry - for British
p. 26 ? Whites a caste - lady’s maid
p. 26 ? Negro baptists & Methodists
p. 28 X - [Negro] in K[entucky] well-off - “races”
p. 28 & 29 X “Our Rulers” - rich opprest
p. 30 Slavery freedom of wife bought K[entucky]
p. 32 X Rotation of Professors in office
p. 32 ? Indian corn, not preferred to wheat
p. 32 X Democratic system, New States, rotation
p. 34 ? Umbrella a curiosity in U.S. say English
p. 34 X Pittsburg artizen losing money at cards
p. 34 ? Plan of manumission (K[entucky]) for Liberia
p. 34 ? K[entucky] no votes to blacks by convention
p. 36 G. ? Geology, Lawrence on rock of split rocks
p. 36 X American Judge on British peasants
p. 36 X - [American Judge] forgets Canada & provincial U.S.
p. 38 X Church in Engl[and] ag[aisnt] Educat[ion]
p. 38 X Steamer rate of on Ohio R[iver].
p. 38 X Plants Louisville K[entucky]
p. 40 ? Mesmerism & the Vestiges believed
p. 40 X Blacks mimicry of Whites
p. 40 X Caesar signature of a dollar note
p. 41 X Negro man in England marrying white woman
p. 42 X Black Methodist on “Love feast”
p. 44 X Distances Evansville to Cincinnati
p. 44 ? Genteel people always whigs
p. 44 X Bills at Inns never disputed
p. 45 X Horses treading out maize
p. 45 X Light at N[ew]. Orleans shutters
[April 8th 1846]
p. 46 X N[ew]. Orleans revolving dummie
p. 46 X Sea-serpent Dawsons letter. Perkin’s
p. 46 X Snake K[entucky]
p. 46 X Cincinnati popul[ation] of
p. 48 X Anglican Ch[urch] in U.S. loyal yet republ[ican]
p. 48 X Addresses of naturalists Cincinnati
p. 50-53 G Loess shells, Anthony's names of N[ew]. Harmony Natches Mt Vernon
p. 54 X White negros in a school Cincinnati
p. 54 X Oration of drunken orator (English)
p. 55 X N[ew]. York city democratic & State
p. 55 X - [New York city] influence in rejecting Clay
p. 56 X? Negro in Ohio citizens of half white
p. 56 Wandering Jew anti romanist effect
p. 56 X Cincinnati Popul[ation] 1/3d German
p. 57 ? English writers favoring U.S. not read
p. 57 ? Oaks his plan of smooth paper
p. 58 ? Monarchies breed more radicals than Democracies breed ultra-tories
p. 58 X Power’s bust at Mr Longworth’s
p. 58 X Vine cultivation Mr. L. horticulture
p. 58 ? Puseyism B[isho]p Doane
[Note: The above 2 index lines are on p. 59.]
p. 59 X Cincinnati P. Atalanta etc.
Apr[il] 10th [1846]
p. 60 ? Fish Ohio R[iver]. ganoid
p. 60 Melania or Lymnea elodes
p. 60 X The Vine cultiv[ated] Cincinnati
p. 60 X White Negros in school at
p. 62 X Tortoise in Clarke’s garden
p. 62 Plants Ind[iana] Spring flowers
p. 64 ? Covington streets of
p. 66 & 64 X Observatory Cincinnati
p. 64 X Romanist Cathedral, Germans under priests
p. 64 X Tortoise in Clarke’s garden
p. 66 X Romanist schools, Propagandism
p. 68 Pining of emigrant after 25 y[ea]rs.
p. 69 & 68 & 71 G X Box of fossils from Cincinn[ati] contents
p. 68 G X Fossils in collections Cincinn[ati]
p. 68-70 G Spirifer & Delthyris
p. 70 X First Steamer on Ohio in 1811
p. 70 X Cincinnati Populat[ion] of - Germans
p. 72 X Steamers on Missi[ssippi] number of
p. 72 G Loess or clay with helices
p. 72 X G Drift on river hills Ohio vis
p. 72 Leafless trees
p. 72 G. Lingula erect in Blue Limest[one] mudst[one]
p. 73 X Roman Cath[olic] ascendancy Cincinnati
p. 73 - [Roman Catholic] Anthony's bookseller boy
p. 74 X Cultiv[ation] of vine - loess
p. 76 & 74 G Loess Mill C[reek] Cemetery sect[ion] Cincinn[ati]
p. 75 X German newspaper & Churches
p. 77 X Plants, Botany Cincinnati
[Note: The above index line is on p. 76.]
p. 76 G. Cemetery Mill C[reek] sect[ion] loess
p. 76 G Orthoceras in mudst[one] of Blue limest[one]
Ap[ril] 11th [1846]
p. 78 X Observatory, double stars, Cincinnati
p. 78 X War apprehension of at
p. 79 X Vine cultivat[ion] of - native species
p. 79 X Hogs great slaughter of
p. 79 X Cincinnati rapid growth, why,
p. 76, 74 80 G. Geology Mill Creek & B[ig] Bone L[ick]
p. 81 X B[ishop] McIlvaine Puseyites &c
p. 81 ? Locofocoism current as of Missi[ssippi]
p. 81 X Plants Judas tree etc grass
p. 82 Nunnery, Cincinn[ati] conversions
p. 82 ? Poor in U.S. amp; England Coleman on
p. 82 X Monarchy breeds more radicalism than Democracy does ultra toryism
p. 83 Unitarians visiting England
p. 84 X War, cooly talked of with Engl[and]
p. 64 & 84 ? Covington streets of
p. 84 X Sleep 3 or more in a bed
p. 85 ? Riches Envy of
p. 85 ? New England Character Mrs Petre, v.
p. 85 ? - [New England] Less hypocrisy in the South
p. 86 ? Clergy changing their Profess[ions]
p. 86 ? Northern women have coarser hands
p. 50, 53 & 86 Natchez (loess) shells
p. 86 X Cincinnati Steamers - Canal at
p. 88 X Scenery of Ohio R[iver].
p. 88 G Geology Cincinnati drift, Observ[atory]
p. 90 X Experiment of U.S. Constit[ution] failure
p. 90 ? Koch, origin illiterate
p. 90 ? Slaves C. Lewis on Ed[inburgh] Rev[iew]
p. 90 - [Slaves] Mrs H. Couper buying art[icles] for
p. 92 ? Unitarians in Engl[and] Mrs. Bowditch
p. 92 C. L.’s Travels time in writing
p. 92 X Scenery on Ohio R[iver]
p. 92 Cincinnati valley formed after drift
p. 92 X Steamers on Ohio rate of speed
p. 94 X Democracy, escape from equality (Society)
p. 94 X Raft size of on Ohio R[iver]
p. 94 Low amp; high pressure Engines
p. 102 & 96 x Methodist B[isho]p marries slave holder
p. 96 X - [Methodist] Presbyt[erian] & Baptist N. & S. split
p. 98 ? Killing time Cincinnati
p. 98 Methodists number of communicants
p. 98 ? Dismemberment of U.S. Confederacy
p. 98 ? Gallatin on War - Military in Engl[and]
p. 100 X German Emigrant to Ind[iana] price of land
p. 102 X - [German] on Party spirit P[ennsylvania] & U.S
p. 102 X Steamer scream of pipe
p. 102 X Cincinnati iron factories & coal
[April 14, 1846]
p. 104 Gallipolis bank of loess at
p. 104 Methodist Church
p. 104 Cincinnati Br[idge]. over Ohio R[iver].
p. 104 Free Blacks very low in P[ennsylvania]
p. 107 X Books to be read
p. 107 X Cincinnati produce of
p. 107 X Louisville advantages of, why not going ahead [‘ahead’ interlined]
p. 107 X Raft on Ohio, steamer runs down,
p. 108 X Big Kenawa [sic ‘Kanawha’] clean waters of
p. 108 G X Loam & loess, Scenery
p. 108 X Raft size of
p. 108 X War with Engl[and] (last one badly fought)
p. 108 X Riches envied in newer States
p. 110 X Naturalization of
p. 110 X Canvassing, Pickett, the Bull calf
p. 110 ? New Country, Gen[eral] Washington
p. 110 G. Geology Ohio R[iver] loam
p. 112 X How “[couruant]”
p. 112 X Scenery Ohio riv[er] Wheeling
p. 112 - [Scenery] contrast of with Balize