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top two lines unclear bade us adieu & returned to Columbus. We are now out of the Muddy part of the country & the miasma of the low lands & are regaled with Southern or Gulf breezes. Camped 2 ½ miles more in a small prairie having good grass - No Mosquitos fresh S. breezes - but myriads of fire flies, like so many sparkling gems - caught some of them - It is a long fly & the inferior or hinder part can be illuminated at pleasure & of a brilliant bluish white color - Travelled 10 Wednesday 8th Mg fine & air cool - a ? not like the coast & bottom