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He traveled on horseback from Boston. In Phila 

 delphia he put up "at the sign of the Connastago 

 Wagon" the kind of wagon then used in the up 

 country, and afterward for two generations the 

 wheeled-house with which the pioneers moved west 

 ward across plain and prairie. He halted for some 

 days in the log-built town of Pittsburg, and, like 

 many other travelers of the day, took a dislike to 

 the place and to its inhabitants, who were largely 

 Pennsylvania Germans. He mentioned that he had 

 reached it in thirty days from Boston, and had not 

 lost a pound of his baggage, which had accompanied 

 him in a wagon under the care of some of his hired 

 men. At Pittsburg he was much struck by the beauty 

 of the mountains and the river, and also by the 

 numbers of flat-boats, loaded with immigrants, whicK 

 were constantly drifting and rowing past on their 

 way to Kentucky. From the time of reaching tfie 

 river his journal is filled with comments on the ex 

 traordinary abundance and great size of the various 

 kinds of food fishes. 



At last, late in May, he started in a crowded flat- 

 boat down the Ohio, and was enchanted with the 

 wild and beautiful scenery. He was equally pleased 

 with the settlement at the mouth of the Muskingum ; 

 and he was speedily on good terms with the officers 

 of the fort, who dined and wined him to his heart's 

 content. There were rumors of savage warfare 

 from below; but around Marietta the Indians were 

 friendly. May and his people set to work to clear 

 land and put up buildings; and they lived sumptu- 



