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but in going along the road passing as it were through a gap to the top you do   not perceive your height until you arrive at the top when you look down on the west side   as it were perpendicular the Alleghany presents itself to view from the top of this   lopsided mountain the road takes an oblique and very steep descent along the west side,   of this mountain murmurs the N. Branch as unconscious as though there were no   precipices of destruction hanging over her gentle bosom after Crossing the N. Branch we   proceeded about 2 miles to [     ]burg for an encampment having made thirty four long   miles~  Monday 6th We Commenced our journey this morning and proceeded about half a mile   and found we had forgotten our morning gown returned and got it we then proceeded   about three miles over a road that would have retarded the progress [   ] when we to our   great satisfaction got on to the U. 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for us this day thirty five miles ~  Tuesday 7th We resumed our journey this morning and travelled two miles to Smithfield   which is situated on the East bank of the Great Yanghagany which is a Considerable   tributary of the mononghahela river here we Commenced ascending what is Called Tom   Browns hill which is five miles from the bottom to the top three miles up this hill we   Breakfasted at Tom Browns he is a jolly old fellow and keeps a good house there is   nothing worthy of note from Toms to the Laurel Hill which is truly a tremendious pile on   the East side you Cannot see any thing peculiar in it from those you have just Crossed but   when you have ascended the summit you have one of the most majestic and Beautiful   sights before you we ever beheld you look down as it were in a tremendious abyss and at   the same time view a most delighful Cultivated Country interspersed with beautiful   forests flourishing wheat fields together with numerous herds and flocks of 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you embrace at the same time an extent of Country fifty or sixty miles or as far as   the eye Can reach which presents one of the most delightful Landscape sceneries we ever   beheld we descended the mountain which is three miles and an ½ from top to bottom   with the exception of one very slight relax it is the full degree of elevation specified by   Law all the way at the foot stands monroe which is not a flourishing village two miles   west of this is Uniontown the Seat of Justice of Fayette County which is a flourishing   village the Country is composed of only second quality land we travelled eleven miles   west of uniontown to sandy Hollow and encamped for the night having accomplished   thirty six miles  Wednesday 8th We again Commenced our journey this morning as usual we Crossed the   Monongahela at Brownsville in a flat the U. 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Joseph Ritner we passed within six or seven miles of his mansion   washington is a very smart Business doing place is situated on an eminence of Beauty we   passed through the town through Claysville three miles to Irvins tavern and put up the   Country west of the Monongahela is prodigious hilly in fact in some places the hills bear   a strongly marked mountainous Character the land is nothing more than second quality   but is tolerably well improved we made thirty Eight miles this Day ~"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/4192d5f2-9823-4d16-9512-1839a8ee0343/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f862244-3d83-48e9-b08f-3489e6619c9c/canvas/_11","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"10","height":2341,"width":1959,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/90ee2c29-3cb9-4e41-a4a2-b3f2a2b0c123/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/90ee2c29-3cb9-4e41-a4a2-b3f2a2b0c123","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2341,"width":1959},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f862244-3d83-48e9-b08f-3489e6619c9c/canvas/_11","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"Thursday 9th We embarked this morning and passed through West Alexandria which is   very Conspicuously situated and is a lively place we here Crossed the Penna state line and   once more entered Va we entered the valley or hollow rather of the little Wheeling Creek   about twelve miles East of Wheeling along which we passed to the town Wheeling is a   place of great Buisinss according to the number of inhabitants there is a great trade   Carried on, there is an Island opposite the town which is of surpassing fertility, as soon as   we Crossed the Ohio river, it appeared to us as though we were entering Bucks County   the improvements the manners and Customs of the people were so similar the   Comparison was very striking there is an astonishing Contrast between the two Banks of   the Ohio river between a free and a slave state the face of the County bears prety much   the same aspect as on the East side of the Ohio that is it is hilly and broken but well   Cultivated we passed through St. Clairsville which is the seat of Justice"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/90ee2c29-3cb9-4e41-a4a2-b3f2a2b0c123/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f862244-3d83-48e9-b08f-3489e6619c9c/canvas/_12","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"11","height":2308,"width":1858,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c27afe2d-84a2-4123-a263-1d53ed0a9de4/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c27afe2d-84a2-4123-a263-1d53ed0a9de4","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2308,"width":1858},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f862244-3d83-48e9-b08f-3489e6619c9c/canvas/_12","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"of Belmont County to Loydsville where we encamped with Penna accommodations   having made thirty five and half miles this day ~  Fryday 10th we went nine miles this morning to Fairview to Breakfast at Greer’s the most   filthy place we met with the whole rout Charged us stable room beside horse feed we   passed through Middletown and Washington to Cambridge which is the County seat of   guernsey County and is a lively place we proceeded Eight and an half miles further to   Concord for Lodgings the face of the Country still bears a hilly appearance but well   Cultivated we made this day forty and an half miles  Saturday 11th We resumed our journey at an early hour we proceeded on to Zanesville   which is one of the most flourishing towns in the Western Country there are very   extensive merchant flouring mills at this place propelled by the Muskingum river the road   from Wheeling to Zanesville is decidedly the Best road in the U. 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State road which was in an   unfinished state at some places we were obliged to take the Old road through immence   forests of Oak and Beech trees many of which were of an astonishing size"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/cfd45121-8650-477b-aab7-67759eb7a245/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f862244-3d83-48e9-b08f-3489e6619c9c/canvas/_14","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"13","height":2319,"width":1844,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c659462a-37f3-42d4-8b2e-e3b95523845b/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/c659462a-37f3-42d4-8b2e-e3b95523845b","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":2319,"width":1844},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/winterthur/iiif/8f862244-3d83-48e9-b08f-3489e6619c9c/canvas/_14","metadata":[{"label":"Transcription","value":"sometimes we were precipitated in the mire to the horses buttaks which was not a very   plasant situation to be placed in we passed through numerous little towns just Blocked up   in the woods we Crossed several streams which would have Caused us Considerable   difficulty had it not been for the bridges recently built by the U. States we travelled   through an almost uninterupted and impenitrable forest of tremendious Oak and Beech   trees the Country appears to be an almost Continued swamp from Hebron to Columbus   low and dreary the Cause of which is in great measure owing to the ground being   Covered with such an immence body of heavy timber and underwood which precludes   the sun from ever Casting his rays upon the ground we reached Columbus after a very   fatigueing days journey of twenty seven miles 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13th and Tuesday 14th We spent in Columbus which is plasantly situated on the   East bank of the sciota river it Contains a state house and public offices a Court house   and jail being the County seat of Franklin County as also the state Capital there are also   several houses of public worship and numerous blocks of fine buildings we stoped at Mr.   Heyls  Wednesday 15th We proceeded on our journey in the direction of Lancaster to Mrs   Edward’s about 8 miles East of Columbus situated on the great Walnut Creek where we   took dinner we then proceeded on our journey Crossed the Great Walnut Creek through   Blocktown over little Walnut through Bloomfield to Circleville the seat of Justice of   Picaway County where we encamped for the night the Country we passed through after   leaving the Great Walnut Creek is what is Called the Picaway plains and exceeds any   Country in fertility of soil of any thing we ever saw it appears to be a Black vegetable   mould and almost an 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its is rather better adapted to growing Indian Corn and grazing than any thing Else it   appears to be too level and strong for wheat there are more Cattle fatted in Picaway   County than any other section of the state  Thursday 16th We took an excursion about six miles North of Circleville to view a section   and half of public school land there is some very fertile bottom land belonging to the   property but there were some ponds of Disagreeable stagnant water upon it which appear   rather agueish the underwood is Chiefly Composed of pawpaw and buckeye the timber   walnut ash sycamore and Hackberry and some Oak when we returned we proceeded   down the sciota towards Chilicothe we went ten miles to Browns and encamped for the   night there are at Circleville some very singular entrenchments Cut around a very   singular mound which is Circular it is of an ancient appearance which gives name to the   town it is supposed this mound has been a depositary of the 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17th We proceeded along the sciota valley to Chillicothe to Breakfast the Land   along the Sciota without exception is of great fertility but better adapted to the growth of   Indian Corn than any other kind of grain at Chillicothe we Crossed the sciota on a bridge   Chillicothe is a splendid town situated on the West bank of the sciota the Ohio Canal   passes through the town which adds much to the fine appearance of the place it Contains   a Court house and jail being the County seat of Ross County there are beside several   housses of public worship and Bank together with several splended Hostel’s we   proceeded on in a westward direction up the paint river there are some first quality   Bottom lands along the paint valley with numerable mounds of a very singular interesting   and ancient appearance some of which are of a large size with Circular and others square   entrenchments around them it is universally believed to be the depository 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19th We took Breakfast and proceeded on through a vast Continued swamp and   log turn pike to williamsburg where we Crossed the East Fork of the little Miami the   stream had risen a foot per hour this morning it was almost impassible before we left the   town we Crossed the same stream at Batavia seven miles from this place where the water   was not more than two feet deep in Consequence of the water’s having not reached this   place having a Circuit of thirty or forty miles to run Batavia is handsomely situated on the   East bank of the East Fork of the littel Miami and is the County seat of Clermont County   we proceeded on to Newtown where we took Lodgings the face of the Country from   Batavia to Newtown is some what hilly and broken but well Calculated for growing   wheat the Country is generally well improved we accomplished thirty one miles to Day 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