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of any village containing 100 inhabitants, no not 20 inhabitants, I think. I wrote to you some descriptions of our first stopping place. We found such all the way through, some perhaps a little better, and some worse. I should have preferred taking a tent with our wagon, and making ourselves as comfortable as we could with our own shelter, but the arrangements were made before I came, partly from the impossibility of finding water except at the houses. So we boarded everywhere at the Farmer's houses. On one account I liked the arrangement. It gave greater facilities for getting acquainted with the people, mode of life etc etc. I suppose the people here are quite different from there in the Northern part of Illinois. Here they are mostly from the South, some few from Ohio & Pennsylvania. About all came here