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after this & until reaching Bell's our destination by stage route the country is sterile & uninteresting, probably the least fertile portion of Kentucky - The pleasures of the morning ride were much heightened by intercourse with the driver, a good specimen of a race rapidly diminishing, the American stage driver, a person entirely distinct from the English individual of that title - In the present instance he was tall & well proportioned, a large frame muscular & enured to hardship, with little of the encumbrance to agility called fat, his features were decidedly acqueline, the mouth [compressed?] with determination & the eye bright. Complexion sunburnt, the [starched? stretched?] felt securely screening his face from the sun's scorching rays -- In fact he would be an admirable model for the pioneer of our backwoods representing a physiognomy peculiarly American - affable & polite there was nothing [servile?} in his manner but you felt