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buying agricultural or timbered land of fair quality, but 

 this is neither one or the other & it must have been 

 located by design to be worthless, or by mistake, or as 

 many sections were, without examination by the locating 

 agent, or else a mistake must have been made in the num- 

 ber of section, township or range, by which the reserve 

 became fixed upon such a spot, as neither white man or 

 Indian would have selected to receive or the government 

 to give; as I cannot conceive any purpose for which it 

 would be valuable to either. There is at this time much 

 vacant prairie land coming within the terms of good 

 farming land, though not at present saleable, upon which 

 this reservation might have been located, in the same 

 county. Solon Robinson 



16*'^ December 1850. 

 District of Columbia | 



Washington County J to Wit: — On this W^ day of 

 December 1850, before me, the Subscriber, a Justice of 

 the peace, in and for Said County, personally ap- 

 peared the within named John Robinson, and made 

 Oath in due form of law, that the foregoing annexed 

 Statements are true, to the best of his Knowledge & 

 belief — 



Sworn before 



P. K. MORSELL J. P. — 



The Traveller. — No. 4. 



[New York American Agriculturist, 10:91-93; Mar., 1851] 



[December 25, 1850] 



Journey from Netv York to Florida. — A few notes of 

 this journey may be interesting to readers. December 

 11th, I left New York on that excellent boat, the John 

 Potter, which leaves the wharf nearest the Battery on 

 the North River, every day at noon, and arrives at South 

 Amboy, 30 miles, in an hour and three quarters. It takes 

 less than fifteen minutes to transfer a load of passengers 

 and baggage to the railroad, and in four hours and a half. 



