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started again quite [?] this has [?] and to the [?] stopped at the [?] miles house for breakfast stopped at noon in Bloominton Grove [?] the [?] the first running stream of water I have seen on the [?] To [?] we [?] to see the end of our journey I am rejoiced at the idea I am completely warn out with travelling nights especially. Tuesday 23rd [?] and his father left us in Bloominton while they proceeded on horseback to view the county and select a place for our future home. Thursday returned having bought on improvement they proceeded immediately to Springfield and entered for [?] Saturday 28th This morning I was taken ill with the chills and fever Monday 30th our [?] returned from Springfield and Tuesday we started for our home 30 miles from Bloomington the day was cold and stormy [?] through Dry Grove Staats Grove stopped at in Mackinaw a small town on the river of the same [?] [?] unpleasant night never saw the rain came in torrents and the wind blew violently the house was poor and the rain beat in we could obtain but one bed and that a wet one sick and worn out with fatigue I thought I could hardly live through the night in so uncomfortable a situation, the worst water here I ever tasted in my lift, Next morning [?] the Mackinaw River which was fordable and in the afternoon reached our distance home today I had a sever [?] that it