155 
this was interesting to me, because I heard from Mr. Buck¬ 
ingham that twenty-nine years since, he emigrated as a poor man 
from the state of New York to that wild country, and on the 
spot where his property now stands he had himself felled the trees, 
and built a log-house in which he lived several years; he owes 
his welfare to his integrity, his industry, and economy. In his 
business, he informed me money was a rare thing, which he sel¬ 
dom saw ; the greatest number of persons who buy articles from 
his store, pay for them in corn, beef, lard, corn meal, vegetables, 
fruits, &c. this is, however, the case with most of the stores in the 
western states, and give the merchants considerable trouble to 
sell them. I accompanied Mr. Buckingham and family to the 
Presbyterian church in Zanesville, a large brick building, which 
was very full and very warm. I understood very little of the 
sermon; the singing was excellent, without organ or any musical 
accompaniment. In the centre of the church was a long table, as 
a greater part of the congregation were communicants. Mr. 
Buckingham and family partook of this religious rite. I took a 
walk through the town, and visited a second bridge crossing the 
Muskingum, situated above the first; this bridge is more ancient 
than the first, and likewise rests on five stone piers ; it is covered 
and made of wood, but badly constructed and in a decayed con¬ 
dition. It does not run in a straight line, but forms an obtuse 
angle, in order to reach a point of land which is produced by 
the union of the Licking with the Muskingum, from this angle 
of the bridge, another begins, which goes towards the point of 
land; this is not roofed; this bridge leads to the Newark road, 
meanwhile the covered branch is directed to the New Lancaster 
road. Since the construction of the better bridge below, the older 
one is very little used. The prospect from it over the Muskin¬ 
gum and Licking is very handsome. Both of them have, not 
far from their junction, high dams forming waterfalls, and on 
all the four shores mills for flour, oil and sawing. The Licking 
begins at the junction of three little rivers in Licking county, and 
has some falls above, where it unites with the Muskingum, which 
have been used for mills. At two o’clock we returned to our 
mail stage; the weather being very hot, we rode but twelve 
miles, to an insulated house called Dugan’s tavern, where we 
arrived between five and six o’clock, and met with tolerably good 
quarters. The country is woody and very hilly, the road was so 
bad that we had to stop frequently, and for this reason I again 
went the greatest part of the road on foot, in spite of the heat and 
dust; the next day we travelled in the same manner to Fairview, 
forty-eight miles distant, along a very hilly country, bad road, 
rocks, causeways, and so many rapid declivities, that we had to 
stop thirty times. We passed through Salt creek, Cambridge, 
