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vated extensively, and; as in other places, 

 ploughed in as manure for wheat. 



The stock I saw here is of a better descrip- 

 tion than in any of the places previously visit- 

 ed by me, but still by no means first-rate, nor 

 at all like what should be found in such a 

 country. Although I was told this is consi- 

 dered a sheep country, the few sheep I saw in 

 it were miserable animals. 



Such continued to be the character of the 

 country all the way to Wheelin, and in many 

 places it was truly beautiful. 



About eleven o'clock A.M.! arrived at Wheel- 

 in, a small town on the Ohio possessing some 

 iron founderies, but deriving its chief import- 

 ance from being the great outlet from New 

 York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, 

 and other places eastward, to New Orleans 

 and the great southern and western states. 



The communication from those cities is 

 maintained, first by the several lines of rail- 

 road emerging from them, to Frederick, in 

 Maryland, and from thence, by what is called 

 " the great national road," across the Alle- 



