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they were followed, at a short distance, by a waggon 

 with women and children, and a train of others laden 

 with baggage. Our driver remarked that they were 

 &quot; movers,&quot; and I asked him if he ever knew an 

 instance of an American migrating eastward. He 

 said that he was himself the only example he ever 

 heard of; for he was from Kentucky, having come 

 the year before to satisfy his curiosity with a sight 

 of the great Pittsburg fire. There he found a great 

 demand for work, and so was tempted to stay. 



Our road lay through East Liberty, Wilkinsburg, 

 and Adamsburg. Some day-labourers, who were 

 breaking stones on the road, told me they were re 

 ceiving seventy-five cents, or three shillings, a day ; 

 and this in a country where food and fuel are much 

 cheaper than in England, although clothing is rather 

 dearer. 



Near Turtle Creek, two farmers conducted me to 

 a spot where coal was worked, and where the undu 

 lating ground consisted of sandstone, limestone, and 

 shale, green and black, of the coal-formation, pre 

 cisely resembling strata of the same age in England, 

 both in mineral appearance, and in most of the species 

 of imbedded fossil plants. 



About fifteen miles before we reached Greensburg, 

 we saw, in the extreme distance, the blue, faint, long, 

 and unbroken line of the most western ridge of the 

 Alleghanies. 



Greensburg is a neat, compact town of about 1000 

 inhabitants. The houses are all of brick ; there is a 

 court-house and five churches, some Lutheran, others 

 Calvinistic, the German language being used in some, 



