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_10th_--Rode all day in the rain and h the worst roads in the universe, frequently crossing creeks, belly deep of our horses

Passed the creek at Blue-lick, belly deep, with sulphurous water running fro The water stinks like the putrid stagnant water of an English horse-pond, full of ani

This is resorted to for health

Five or six dirkings and stabbings took place, this fall, in Kentucky

_11th_--Breakfasted at Washi+ngton, (Kentucky) where we parted with Mr

Phillips, andabout law

Rested at Maysville, a good house, having chaood beds, with curtains The steam-boats pass this handsome river town, at the rate of fifteen to twenty er, the effect is beautiful, everynew objects of attraction

_12th_--Crossed the Ohio in a flat, sub to Kentuckyan imposition of seventy-five cents a horse, instead of twenty-five, because ere supposed to be Yankees ”We will not,” said the boat-man, ”take you over, for less than a dollar each We heard of you, yesterday The gentleh he {338} could afford to pay, and besides, he is so slick with his tongue The Yankees are the smartest of fellows, except the Kentuckyans” Sauciness and impudence are characteristic of these boat-e over the river

Reached Union town, Ohio,[108] and rested for the night

_13th_--Breakfasted at Colonel Wood's A fine breakfast on beef, pork-steaks, eggs, and coffee, and plenty for our horses, all for fifty cents each Slept at Colonel Peril's, an old Virginian revolutionary soldier, living on 400 acres of fine land, in a good house, on an eminence, which he has held two years only He noishes to sell all at ten dollars an acre, less than it cost him, because he has a family ill all want as much land each, in the Missouri, at two dollars He never had a negro He knows us to be English froh two or three young villages

_14th_--Breakfasted at Bainbridge,[109] where is good bottom land, at twenty to thirty dollars an acre, with iinian complains of want of labourers A farmer must do all hiar, of which soood enough

Reached Chilicothe, on the Sciota river, to {339} sup and rest at the tavern of Mr Madera, a sensible young entleman of Philadelphia, from Missouri and Illinois, who thinks both sickly, and not to be preferred to the east, or others parts of the west I saw three or four good houses, in the best street, abandoned, and the s and doors rotting out for want of occupants

_15th_--I rode all day through a fine interesting country, abounding with every good thing, and full of springs and streae of rocks, which nature has clothed in everlasting green, being beautified with the spruce, waving like feathers, on their bleak, barren tops I reached Lancaster to rest; a handso occasionally from sixteen dollars to twenty dollars A fine far cleared, with all improvements, was sold lately by the sheriff, at sixteen dollars one cent an acre, much less than it cost Labour is to be had at fifty cents and board, but as the produce is so low, it is thought far, by hired hands, does not pay Wheat, fifty cents; corn, 33-1/2 cents; potatoes, 33 cents a bushel; beef, four dollars per cwt; pork, three dollars; ht in coe and General ----, who states that four millions of acres of land will this year {340} be offered to sale, bordering on the lakes

Why then should people go to the Missouri? It is not healthy near the lakes, on account of stagnant waters, ular periodical rising and falling of the lakes is not yet accounted for There is no sensible dirand canal is to be completed in five years, when boats will travel[111]

_Sunday, 16th_--I left Lancaster at peep of day, travelling through intense cold and icy roads to Sohteen miles, in five hours, to breakfast[112] Warmed at an old quarter-section man, a Dutch American, from Pennsylvania He caht children, likes his land, but says, produce is too low toPeople coood farms, should stay, unless their children can co fa the first, and all other floors, by a pipe passing through theood tavern, the keeper of which is a farmer All are farmers, and all the best farmers are tavern-keepers Farms, therefore, on the road, sell froh it is no better in quality, and for , worth no more

But on the road, a farm and frequented tavern is found to be {341} a very beneficialfor double and treble what it will bring atready money

Labour is not to be commanded, says our landlord

_17th_--Started at peep of day in a snow-storround six inches deep Breakfasted at beautiful Zanesville, a town st the hills Twelvefor salt, hit upon silver; a mine, seven feet thick, 150 feet below the surface It is very pure ore, and the proprietor has given up two acres of the land to persons who have applied to the legislature to be incorporated He is to receive one-fifth of the net profits

_18th_--I rode all day through a fine hilly country, full of springs and fountains The land is ood pasture than for cultivation Our landlord, Mr Gill, states that wheat at fifty cents is too low; but, even at that price, there is no market, nor at any other

In soets supplied from countries more conveniently situated than Ohio, from which it costs one dollar, or one dollar and a quarter per barrel, to send it Boats carrying from 100 to 500 barrels, sell for only 16 dollars

Froh Sheriff of this county, I learn that no coer than five {342} days None need be longer in giving security for the surrender of all property

_19th_--Reached Wheeling late at night, passing through a ros and creeks Thus I left Ohio, which, thirty years ago, was a frontier state, full of Indians, without a white , Kaskasky, and St Louis

_20th_--Reached Washi+ngton, Pennsylvania, to sleep, and found our tavern full of thirsty classics, froh, through a beautiful country of hills, fit only for pasture I viewed the fine covered bridges over the two rivers Monongahela and Allegany, which cost 10,000 dollars each The hills around the city shut it in, and htfully precipitous It is ibly situated amidst rocks, or rather hills, of coal, stone, and iron, the coals lying up to the surface, ready for use One of these hills, or coal banks, has been long on fire, and rese for this rising Birood hotel of Major Spriggs, one of General Washi+ngton's revolutionary officers, now near 80, a chronicle of years departed[113]

_22nd_--Bought a fine buffalo robe for five dollars {343} The buffaloes, when Kentucky was first settled, were shot, by the settlers, ht worth nothing, were left where the ani through a fine, cultivated, thickly settled country, full of neat, flourishi+ng, and good farms, the occupants of which are said to be rich Land, _on_ the road, is worth from fifteen to thirty dollars; _from_ it, five to fifteen dollars per acre The hills and mountains seem full of coal-mines and stone-quarries, or rather banks of coal and stone ever open gratuitously to all The people about here are econoent; qualities characteristic of Pennsylvania