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18.

trip was chartered to convey us to Pittsburgh. We sailed on the 6th of December and were eleven days making the voyage to Pittsburgh. The golden Indian Summer prevailed all that time and made the passage the most pleasant journey of my life. Being in no hurry the boat was permitted to stop at various towns along the Ohio to take on or discharge light freight. This afforded one an opportunity to go ashore and visit the towns and inspect their various and interesting activities. The lovely and ever changing paroramas that were gliding by one either hand in the daylight and the moonlight with the autumn tinted shores of the Ohio repeated in her placid waters ? by the echoes of musical streems