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like others, there being uotliing of marked interest to 

 the traveller in this section of Indiana, I still found 

 much pleasure in looking over the farms as I passed 

 them and noticing the variety of methods and effects. 



A good stimulating breeze came inland from the 

 lake and by noon it had added zest to my appetite. I 

 stopped for dinner at the village of Chesterton and 

 then pushed on to this place which was reached in the 

 evening by seven o'clock — twenty-eight miles having 

 been covered during the day. 



The only accommodation to be found was nothing 

 more nor less than a beer-saloon with sleeping rooms 

 attached, a characteristic, I regret to say, which I ob- 

 served in many of the small towns through this sec- 

 tion of the country. As immediate environment has 

 an influence in making impressions, my opinion of 

 this halting-place on the borders of " Hoosierdom '' 

 was not the most exalted. 



©lie fjim^reb aub Siueiitn-ntntl) X^a-^. 



Rohmer House, 

 Righto N, Illinois, 



Septepiber Seventeenth. 



Owing to the late hour of my arrival at Hobart the 

 previous evening I was unable to observe my usual 

 practice of looking through the place and making a 

 note of its striking points in my journal, and for this 

 reason I was not in the saddle until ten o'clock A. M., 

 although the time was spent more in seeing than in 

 chronicling what was seen. 



Paul was still in the happiest of spirits and I rode 

 »way from Hobart at a gallop, stirring the dust of this 



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