1878 Start for home.
From Mt. Carmel to Indianapolis
May 13 (Monday) Left Mt. Carmel
at 11 A.M. Robert & John bade me
good bye at the depot. At Vin-
cennes Ind. [Indiana] I changed cars &
by mistake got on the wrong train[.]
I however made the conductor
accept my ticket tho' I lost my
dinner in the hurry. Thro' the
afternoon read and looked out
from the car window. As we
were rushing along at full speed
a fine Wild Turkey rose from a
corn field within 50 yds [yards] of the
train and dropped over a fence
in the edge of some low, swampy
woodland. Passing across the
State from West to East the country
gradually becomes more broken
and hilly and a few cedars
begin to appear. We reached
Indianapolis at 7 P.M. and after
a five minutes supper took to
the "sleeper" for the night.
1878. Penn. [Pennsylvania] Central R. R. [Rail Road]
From Pittsburgh to New York.
May 14. (Tuesday) Awoke this
morning to find the train running
into Pittsburgh as dirty and smokey
a place as ever mortal eye rested
upon. Took breakfast here and
were soon after entering - [delete][?][/delete] rather
climbing the mountains. The
scenery thro' the Allegheny range
is in some places very fine and
altogether it surpasses that along
the B. & O. R.R. [Baltimore and Ohio Railroad] thro' West Va. [Virginia]
The view at a point called "Pack
Saddle" struck me as as [sic] the
most impressive. "Horse Shoe
Bend" may have been attractive
before the woods were all cut off.
It is now only deserving of interest
from the remarkable character of 
the engineering. Spent most of
the day talking with a chance 
acquaintance, Mr. Kay of Pittsburgh.
Arrived at Phila. [Philadelphia] at 7 & New York
at 11 P.M. where I joined C.