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177 ...a freight track on the dry Prairie, four inches deep in dust & sand & earth in fine weather, and as many or more inches deep in mud in wet weather. I intimated that I believed I not heard unclearrightly?\ his remark. He then repeated his assertion even more emphatically than at first, "that it was the best piece of road in the world." I was beginning to explain to him as courteously as I could, why I should hardly venture to call it a road at all, when he stopped the unclearshot? with,"sir we have no faith in European practices. I am a sage of roads. I have seen all kinds of roads; & I have seen roads in all kinds of places; & this is just what I said it was, the finest piece of road in the world." Over this model road with six good horses, never with less than four, we were able to manage about six miles per hour.