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he compared with Connersville the houses inelegant and the place far from being handsomely situated about a mile beyond this we crossed White River it is a beautiful stream of water perfectly clear a gravel bottom it overflows some distance soon after we crossed there by & put up at night & from town at a private tolerable entertainment but people do not live here as they do in New York. Monday 8th Took the material? road it is not completed they are to work on it obliged occasionally to turn off the road where they were to work on it. it is a Delightful road it is cut straight we can see for miles before us it his here through the woods broke the braces to one of our waggons many log house now and then several miles apart had very hard rain this afternoon put up at a private house Teusday 9th I arrived all right quite discouraging the weather remarkably cold for several days could hardly keep comfortable riding after 9 miles ride this morning left the National Road is not being papable very further Crossed Mill Creek here we entered a swamp the mud very deep obliged to double the teams no houses near the waggons in which I rode was drawn? through first and I was