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better than usual - less hilly- and well timbered with Maple, Oak, and ash, and black walnut. New Harmony is a small village- containing a population of about 300. Here I tarried for the night at a very good house. The town is situated upon the banks of the Wabash River- a River which resembles in appearance very much the Connecticut. The bed of the River is either gravel or flat lime stone rock. During high water boats unclear (steamboats) nearly to log and port- a distance of only eighty miles from Lake Michigan. The River is by no means rapid as is the case with all the western waters. It is seldom that a "mill privilege" could be procured, without high dancing- as one may will judge when "Keels" and steam boats can navigate almost every stream from the mouth to their sources.