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Washington, and Frankfort. Salt creek lies on a small river of 
the same name, over which there is a bridge. Cambridge is 
a flourishing place of about seventy houses, on a height situated 
on WilPs creek, which is crossed by a plain wooden bridge of 
one hundred and seventy-five yards, which passes over a low 
meadow; this town is the chief place in Gurnsey county, and 
contains a court-house and several stores. We arrived on a court 
day, and the tavern was filled with lawyers. WilPs creek runs 
through many windings, about one hundred and fifty miles, and 
flows into the Muskingum; it is in some seasons navigable to 
Cambridge, in boats of seventy-five feet length. Washington 
and Frankfort are small places, of which nothing can be said. 
On the road, especially near dwelling houses, were several large 
open buildings constructed with beams to dry the yellow tobacco. 
The country is mostly covered with woods. The ground con¬ 
sists of yellow and red clay, &c. 
Fairview, which we reached towards five o’clock in the even¬ 
ing, is a little place containing about twenty houses, most of them 
frame; it is situated on an elevation commanding an extensive 
prospect, whence it derives its name. We met here with part of 
the great national road which leads from Washington city to 
Wheeling, and is to be continued as far as St. Louis. It is a turn¬ 
pike road, dug out six inches deep, and is covered six inches 
thick with small stones, having a ditch on each side; they were 
working slowly at it: Fairview is now at the end of the road. 
On the 16 th of May we left Fairview, in a beautiful starlight 
and warm night, and continued our journey sixty miles to Wash¬ 
ington in Pennsylvania. The country was hilly. The two last 
villages we passed in the state of Ohio, were Morristown and St. 
Clairsville. Both places are small, but well situated on eleva¬ 
tions, and surrounded with fields and orchards. St. Clairsville 
is the chief town of Bellmont county; it contains a court-house, 
jail, market-house, and printing-office, which issues a newspaper; 
also several stores. The houses are merely of wood. The nearer 
we approached to the Ohio, the handsomer was the country. Fi¬ 
nally, we came to a romantic dale, through which flows in a ser¬ 
pentine direction a rivulet called Indian Wheeling, which joins 
the Ohio opposite Wheeling. We frequently road along the new 
national turnpike road, on which they were working rapidly. 
This road carefully avoids the numerous hills, cuts through seve¬ 
ral of them, and has, where it is requisite, solid stone bridges. It 
was said that it would be finished in the autumn. When arrived 
at the Ohio, which runs between hilly shores, partly covered 
with woods, partly cultivated, twenty-nine miles from Fairview, 
we crossed over the river and arrived at a considerable woody 
island, and crossed the left arm in a horse-boat, which took us to 
