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16 Journal across the plains in 1859 Tuesday Ap 5th windy with ground frozen a little we ate breakfast this morning with the landlord Mr. Job the Biscuit tasted so musty that the Landlord appologized and said there was no wheat in the state last year that was not sprouted in tho shock? and they couldn't get any good flour this tavern is in the suburbs of Mt Pleasant and within 1/4 of a mile of the large insane asylum which is now building. Sam and I went over th ground it is 2300 feet around the building. passed through a fine body of timber and ferried Skunk River at Rome. camped within 3 miles of Hairfield at a railroad station, traveled 12 miles