After breakfast on October 18, the steamer passed the settlements of Owensburg and Yellow Banks, where it stopped to take on wood. Later this same day it rounded French Island a few miles above Mount Vernon, Indiana, and Bodmer made this quick study. Toward eleven o'clock one of the ship's passengers died of cholera. A coffin was quickly constructed and, as the body was taken ashore for burial, Maximilian took advantage of the delay to wander along the shore in search of botanical specimens.

On October 17 the Water Witch approached the settlement of Rome, Indiana, opposite Cloverburg, Kentucky. In the afternoon it anchored at Stevensport below Rome, where Bodmer made two watercolor studies of the river.

During the October voyage on the Ohio between Kentucky and Indiana, Bodmer continued making random studies of the river and the shoreline. Although undated, this drawing is identified as having been made on the Ohio.

On the afternoon of October 15, Maximilian's party prepared to embark once again on the Ohio at Portland, about half an hour from Louisville. Near Portland an island provided docking facilities for river craft. Among these was the Water Witch on which the travelers departed downriver. Bodmer's sketch of an Ohio riverboat at Portland, possibly the Water Witch itself, was made on October 16, the morning of their departure.

Bodmer's pen and ink sketch of the Ohio here represents a scene observed downriver from Wheeling toward Louisville, Kentucky, according to the undated inscription at lower right. It could have been made at any time between October 9 and 14, during the voyage between the two towns.

With stopovers at Huntington and Ebensburg, where they stayed several days waiting for Bodmer and Saynisch to catch up with them, Maximilian and Dreidoppel reached Pittsburgh around midnight on September 26. Securing accommodations at the Exchange Hotel, they were soon joined there by Bodmer and Saynisch.

Arriving at Dutotsburgh on the evening of August 23, the travelers stayed overnight at the local tavern. In the morning Maximilian met the old Frenchman Dutot for whom the town had been named, and Bodmer made a quick sketch of Dutot's house during the morning of August 24

At the time of Maximilian's visit, the once extensive Bonaparte estate consisted of about 300 acres of garden and park land. Bodmer made a second landscape in this vicinity on the afternoon of July 23. This was later reproduced as Vignette II in the atlas of aquatints that accompanied the publication of Maximilian's travels in North America.

Setting out for Philadelphia on July 16, MaxiImilian left Bodmer behind to await Dreidoppel's arrival from Providence. Before joining Maximilian a week later, Bodmer passed the time visiting local points of interest and sketching along the New York riverfront. His view of the North River near Hoboken remains in an unfinished state