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be so much warmer. Why they may speak of this place being warmer than Chicago but I don't believe that one week ago today you had 2 1/2 inches of snow, and it was bitter cold early in the morning. One of the residents was near where we encamped told me that they did not have as much snow all last winter as they had that Saturday night, and then when you consider the distance we are from Louisville and that we have travelled all the way and not slept under a roof, tent, or anything but our blankets from the time we left there till we arrived at Bowling Green, you will certainly say we have roughed it ([illegible]) and [yet?] [illegible].

  The climate of this country is very peculiar. The days are very warm and pleasant but the nights are very cold.  We have also travelled over some of the roughest country I have ever heard of.   We have actually driven our horses over mountains which even a man would have