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beech, maple & Tulip poplar chiefly of great size and covered with the thickest & most luxuriant foliage and possessing a richness of form of colour which speaks a most fertile soil & healthy growth. The underbrush seems to have been entirely displaced by the [fathers?] of the forest & the green sward seems as tho' tended by a careful gardener. The surface for some miles is level much of the road following the course of the Ohio river & as it meanders along its banks affording beautiful views of that majestic stream. -- At Salt river a stream somewhat noted in our political annals as giving origin to the term "rowed up Salt river" we took the ferry & crossing passed thro' a gorge of the mountains highly picturesque Rocky & well wooded, with a beautiful spring in the road [unclear] which drops from ledge to ledge of the rocks in a silvery cascade.