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Here we first entered upon our bad roads we thought the roads were bad enough before but we did not know anything about bad roads stopped at noon to a private house Proceeded on our route in the afternoon one of our horses got hurt crossing one of the log ways it made him lame Rode only 5 miles this afternoon stopped at a private house a young lad here had a white smelling and of the most distressed affects I ever saw very poor accommodations the people are ignorant in this part of the country extremely so they use very singular expressions such as right bad or good sortie (so the?) good etc. one gentleman told us we would have a heap of bad roads many of here can hardly understand if you talk the simplest language they are generally from Kentucky Saturday 6th Startged this morning without breakfast was all the pace now going four miles road I cannot call them so it was one continued mudhole sometimes the waggon base would be in the mud and water the most horrible going. any person enu____ I almost despair of ever getting to my journey's end stopped at noon at a public house by Danis here we breakfasted could not get any bread here obliged to bake cake