

THE JOURNAL. 





872. PITTSBURGH, June 3. Arrived 

 here with a friend as travelling companion, by 

 the mail stage from Philadelphia, after a jour 

 ney of six days; having set out on the 28th 

 May. We were much pleased with the face of 

 the country, the greatest part of which was new 

 to me. The route, as far as Lancaster, lay 

 through a rich and fertile country, well cultivated 

 by good, settled proprietors ; the road excel 

 lent: smooth as the smoothest in England, and 

 hard as, those made by the cruel corvies in 

 France. The Country finer, but the road not 

 always so good, all the way from Lancaster, by 

 Little York, to Chambersburgh ; after which it 

 changes for mountains and poverty, except in 

 timber. Chambersburgh is situated on the 

 North West side of that fine valley which lies 

 between the South and North Mountains, and 

 which extends from beyond the North East 

 boundary of Pennsylvania to nearly the South 

 West extremity of North Carolina, and which 

 has limestone for its bottom and rich and fertile 



