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sent down the Ohio to New Orleans in Louisiana and 

 to Mexico. 



From our Anabaptist's we continued five miles 

 through a fine fertile country, of excellent meadow- 

 lands, and then seven miles partly good land, partly 

 dry or ridge woods. Last night there was ice, and yet 

 only ten days ago there was burning heat in this valley. 

 The road to the Ohio cuts across this valley and hence 

 there can be seen only a few of the plantations scattered 

 up and down. 



Over Laurel-hill it is 12 miles from the last house 

 in the Glades to the first on the other side. A desolate 

 and wild mountain it is, its ridge and western slope 

 exhausting for horse and man ; not so much because 

 of steepness, as on account of the abominable rock- 

 fragments lying in the greatest confusion one over 

 another and over which the road proceeds. On this 

 mountain we fell in with two heavily loaded wagons, 

 carrying the baggage, women, and children of several 

 families travelling together. They lived far below on 

 the Ohio, at the Wabash ; during the war they were 

 taken captive by the Indians to Detroit, where they 

 passed several years until the peace. From Detroit 

 the road to their former settlement would have been 

 not more than 3-400 miles ; but because the English 

 thought it unsafe to allow these people to go among 

 the still unpacified Indian nations, they were obliged 

 to come from Detroit to Montreal by way of the 

 Ontario and the St. Lawrence, thence over Lake 

 Champlain and down the Hudson to Albany and New 

 York, and so to Philadelphia. This road, with that 

 still remaining, might be counted at least 3000 Eng- 

 lish miles. With them was a Captain Dalton, at one 



