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800 inhabitants - The Country around is not very good - rather thin sandy soil most too many shrub oaks exhibiting themselves Here I came to the sticking point, whether to become a "Sucker" (The people of Ill. are called suckers, because in the spring, they "run up" to the lead mines of Galena, & in the fall "run down") or a "Buckeye" The people of Ohio are called "Buckeyes" after a tree of that name which flourishes most in Ohio.) for I have little thoughts of becoming a "hoosher." (The people of Indiana are called "Hooshers" - a name which is said to have originated from an Indiana ruffian, who having severely flogged a Kentucky boatman of superior size, "jumped up" & exclaimed "I am a hoosher") To go to St. Louis. there was some difficulty My horse had become quite lame - scortching weather - it was 180 miles - across extensive prairies. The "prairie fly" - (double the size of the N. England