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asked him to recommend him to a public house, said 

 "There is none I can recommend. If you do not 

 object to a private house, I think that I can make 

 you comfortable. 7 ' He took us to his own house, 

 where we were delightfully accommodated. We re- 

 mained with these excellent people until the next 

 day, (during the night our trunk arrived.) Of 

 course we expected to pay for private board ; but 

 they would not listen to it. Mrs. N, insisting that 

 our visit had afforded them great pleasure surely 

 we could not have been more hospitably entertained 

 at the South. * * 



We took the Steamer at Dunkirk for Detroit ; the 

 quiet day and night on the lake has refreshed us. 

 Your father is full of life and spirits. He has a 

 great desire to see a prairie and some of the natural 

 productions of these Western lakes I do like to see 

 him enjoy himself! He fears that he will not have 

 time to go farther West, as this is already the 18th 

 of June, and we must be in New York by the end 

 of the month, and he is obliged, too, to stop a day or 

 two in Philadelphia. * 



We think of you constantly, and wish that you 

 were w r ith us ; but as it could not be, it is cheering 

 to hear from you that you are comfortable and 

 happy at home. Travelling is very pleasant ; but I 

 think that we shall have even more gratification in 

 telling you of all that we have found interesting, 

 than in the actual enjoyment at the time. 



Your father is as despairingly in search of a beau- 

 tiful woman, as Japheth was of his father. 



With love. M. B. 



This search for a beautiful woman, repeatedly 

 alluded to in Dr. Bachman's letters, suggests the 

 thought, that unconsciously the father's eye and 



