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May 7th 1851. "Fare well" from unclear: Christ & Charly? and an agreeable conversation with Capt Hill of the army as far as Elicotts Mills were the last links to bind me to home. Elicotts Mills and its neighborhood afford ample study for an artist & indeed from this point until reaching Uniontown Pa. the scenery increased in interest, varying from the elegant and semi cultivated hills of Elicotts Mills & Frederick county to the grandeur and wildness of the untouched Alleghanies--at the point of Rocks & Carrolls' Manor we first see the mountains forming grand & solemn lines of back ground to the cultivated farms of Frederick. The windings of the Potomac through the thickly wooded gorges of the mountains afford passages of great beauty -- At Cumberland we took the stage in company with two women with children to match, two