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and exhilarating; I have felt stronger and better than for a long time. I can now walk all day in the woods without fatigue, which I could not have done by any means a few weeks since. This Village is a straggling affair, along the hill sides at the union of two or three smaller creeks which from the Red Bank branch of the Alleghany River. It is not so large as old Clearfield on the Susquehanna, but has much more business I judge. I think I shall leave here tonight--Go by stage to Clarion, the shire town of Clarion Co. --thence to __at the mouth of the Red Bank, and thence by Steamboat to Pittsburg. I rather want to go right down the Ohio--Clear to Cairo--and may conclude to do so. It will be very much cheaper than any other way I could go, and I want to see the whole Ohio River. But on the other hand, I want to hear from my Ettie & Mayo, and when I get to Pittsburgh tomorrow night or Saturday morning, the temptation may be too strong for me to go to Elyria to stay over Sunday, and find a letter or two there.