78 PITTSBURGH. 



part of my tour were in general poor half- 

 starved animals, showing as usual, on the part 

 of the owners, a wofiil deficiency in this branch 

 of rural economy. 



The penance of this journey was not con- 

 fined to our being dragged over the rocks, 

 large stones, stumps, holes, and quags, which 

 everywhere gave an interesting diversity to 

 the surface of the road. With all these in the 

 way, we had to toil up mountains approaching 

 nearer to the perpendicular than any over 

 which I had yet seen a carriage road conduct- 

 ed, and generally it happened, that, when we 

 had surmounted and descended one mountain, 

 another, high, rugged, and erect, immediately 

 occurred, and seemed to bid defiance to our 

 farther progress. But I must own the views 

 from these eminences were certainly of the 

 grandest description, and afforded some recom- 

 pense for the toil of attaining them. 



It was, however, with great joy I at length 

 found myself at Pittsburgh at half-past nine 

 o'clock on Sunday night, having to a journey 

 o: 130 miles, taken thirty-seven hours, during 



