292 Journal. [Part 111. 



Glazier's charge for putting in dis. cts. dis. cts. 



each pane of glass 8 in. by 



10 in. Mith their own putty 



and laying on the first coat of 



paint . "! 4 to 5 



Labourers, per annum, and found 100 — 120 

 The charge of carriage for 100 



lbs. weight from Baltimore to 



Zanesville 10 



Ditto for ditto by steam-boat from 



New Orleans to JShippingport, 



and thence, by boats, to Zanes- 



ville, about 6 50 



Peaches, as fine as can grow, per 



bushel 121 — 25 



Apples and Pears proportionably cheaper; sometimes 



given away, in the country. 



551. Prices are much about the same at Steuben- 

 ville ; if any difference, rather lower. If bought in a 

 quantity, some of the articles enumerated might be had 

 a good ileal lower. Labour, no doubt, if a job of some 

 length were offered, might be got somewhat cheaper, 

 here. 



5.52. Juhj 2bth. — Leave Zanesville for Pittsburg, 

 keeping to the United States road ; stop at Cambridge, 

 25 miles. During the first eight miles we met 10 

 wagons, loaded with emigrants. 



553. Julij l^tli. — Stop at Mr, Broadshaw's, a very 

 good house on the road, 25 miles from Cambridge. 

 This general government road is by no means well laid 

 out; it goes straight over the tops of the numerous 

 little hills, up and down, up and down. It would have 

 been a great deal neJ^rer in point of time, if not in dis- 

 tance (though I think it would that, too), if a view had 

 been had to the labour of travelling over these everlast- 

 ing unevennesses. 



554. J all/ 27 th. — To Wheeling in Virginia, 31 miles. 

 They have had tremendous rains in these parts, we 

 hear as we pass along, lately ; one of the creeks we 

 came over has overflown so as to carry down a man's 

 bouse with himself and his whole family. A dreadful 

 catastrophe, but, certainly, one not out of the man's 



