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can have there is no timber only for one family it is an excellent ? as it is 15 miles to a house on either side and the only road that leads to the north part of Illinois a person by taking up the timber land can command as much praire as they please without paying for it but is a good place to make money but happiness does not consist in wealth I could not be deprived of the pleasures of society for all the wealth of the United States there would be no enjoyment in life. Thursday 18th? Yesterday I went around the grove to view the place where our people expected to build if they should buy the place it is a delightful view you can for 80 miles one way where the prairie is interspersed with small groves on one hand nothing can be seen but the ? prairi, this is on this side of the grove is very pretty spring of ? and that works for building spots but I think the land much to plain and level to be healthy we were in hopes our people will not buy the place there on going through the timber found that it was not compact but many points of water which if nothing else will render it very unhealthy the flies and very troublesome people who go