JOURNAL 



Glazier s charge for putting in 

 each pane of glass 8 in. by 

 10 in. with their own putty 

 and laying on the first coat of 

 paint . . . 



Labourers, per annum, and 

 found .... 



The charge of carriage for 100 

 Ibs. weight from Baltimore to 

 Zanesville .... 



Ditto for ditto by steam-boat 

 from New Orleans to Shipping 

 port, and thence by boats, to 

 Zanesville, about 



Peaches, as fine as can grow, 

 per bushel 



Dolls. Cents. Dolls. Cents 



4 to 



10 



50 



25 



Apples and Pears proportionately cheaper ; sometimes given 

 away, in the country. 



951. Prices are much about the same at Steubenville ; if any 

 difference, rather lower. If bought in a quantity, some of the 

 articles enumerated might be had a good deal lower. Labour, 

 no doubt, if a job of some length were offered, might be got 

 somewhat cheaper, here. 



952. July 25th. Leave Zanesville for Pittsburgh, keeping to the 

 United States road ; stop at Cambridge, 25 miles. During the 

 first eight miles we met 10 waggons, loaded with emigrants. 



953. July -2.6th. Stop at Mr. Broadshaw s, a very good house 

 on the road, 25 miles from Cambridge. This general govern 

 ment 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 nearer in point of time, if not in 

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

 had to the labour of travelling over these everlasting un- 

 evennesses. 



954. July 2,7th. 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 house with himself and his whole family. 

 A dreadful catastrophe, but, certainly, one not out of the man s 

 power to have foreseen and prevented ; it surprizes me that the 

 people will stick up their houses so near the water s edge. Cross 

 Wheeling Creek several times to-day ; it is a rapid stream, and I 

 hope it will not be long before it turns many water wheels. See 

 much good land, and some pretty good farming. 



955. July 2%th. Went with a Mr. Graham, a Quaker of this 



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