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so from Springfield; I am sorry that I did not keep it for probably she will return next spring if not this fall, most likely by way of Westfield. Don't run any risk of it being lost- however, better for you to keep it a year. This city of Zanesville is a smoky dingy looking place of about ten thousand people including Putman just across the river; yet it has a 'right' pleasant aspect, the buildings look timeworn yet substantial, the streets well shaded mostly with 'tree of Heaven' and the beautiful Catalpa. there are more, finer, and better filled stores than in Bangor. one truly beautiful fountain in design and workmanship is constantly playing before a handsome private residence on Main Street. The Muskingum is a charming river seeming to me about a third longer than Pisquataquis; It curves gracefully around the city on the western side; Steamboats meet the canal from the north connecting with the Ohio at Marietta. The country around in every direction is fine indeed. Two or three prominent hills quite near covered with handsome residence and groves add much to the beauty of the scenery the ground all around command my admiring gaze, the immense trees so tall and straight of oak hickory and elm. chiefly not an evergreen to be seen. while the ground beneath is as level and smoth as a grass plot before a door. The people seem very social; I have received much