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a double purpose, being as effectual a drain as 

 it is a fence. 



911. I was rather disappointed, or sorry, at 

 any rate, not to find near Mr. Birkbeck's any of 

 the means for machinery or of the materials for 

 manufactures, such as the water-falls, and the 

 minerals and mines, which are possessed in 

 such abundance by the states of Ohio and Ken 

 tucky, and by some parts of Pennsylvania. Some 

 of these, however, he may yet find. Good wa 

 ter he has, at any rate. He showed me a well 

 25 feet deep, bored partly through hard sub 

 stances near the bottom, that was nearly over 

 flowing with water of excellent quality. 



912. July 1st. Left Mr. Birkbeck's for Har 

 mony, Indiana. The distance by the direct way- 

 is about 18 miles, but there is no road, as yet; 

 indeed, it was often with much difficulty that 

 \ve could discover the way at all. After we had 

 crossed the Wabash, which we did at a place 

 called Davis's Ferry, we hired a man to con 

 duct us some part of the way through the 

 woods. In about a mile he brought us to a track, 

 which was marked out by slips of bark being 

 stripped off the trees, once in about 40 yards ; 

 he then left us, and told us we could not mis 

 take if we followed that track. We soon lost 

 all appearance of the track, however, and of the 

 *' blazing" of the trees, as they call it; but, as 



