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Clinton a widow woman kept the house she is from New York been here 11 years has buried her husband and 5 children. Saturday 13th Only 3 miles from the Illinois line. A delightful road through pleasant groves reached the line 9 o'clock come on the ground prairie it is a beautiful country the view on the prairies is grand as far as the eye can reach one way nothing is to be seen but an extensive ?wood now and then interspersed with dis? of small trees on each side in the distance is seen the skirts of the woods which border on the prairie stopped at noon to ? the people tell us that we must not go further till night as the flies are so troublesome that it would be impossible to drive the horses through in the day time It is a mystery what has destroyed the wood on these prairies some think that civilized have inhabited it while other say there is no doubt but the Indians have built it over for hunting ground it will undoubtedly always remain a matter of conjecture Sunday 14th Before sunrise arrived at a house 9.0 miles from where we started where we put up for the day Made 10 miles last night between houses we had some difficulty in finding the road as it lay through the prairie and not woods and but