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pleased me still more had I continued there longer. Two roads 
lead from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg, the northern and the south¬ 
ern, and as it was of no moment which I took, I chose the former, 
as this was travelled by the stage, which leaves Ramsay’s hotel. 
We rode fifty-six miles to Armagh, and changed horses but twice, 
at M‘Miller’s and New Alexandria. These changes are too dis¬ 
tant to allow the horses to travel with rapidity, and they have in 
Pennsylvania a custom of watering the horses every three or four 
miles. The country is hilly; the road had been a turnpike, 
is still so called, and is furnished with toll-gates, where toll 
must be paid, but is in a dreadfully bad state. The traveller is 
jolted in a barbarous manner, and still makes but little progress; 
the heat and the dust of this day were almost intolerable. We 
met many travellers and emigrants from the east, going with 
their families and goods to the western states, to settle there. 
The western states appear to the inhabitants of the eastern and 
northern states, in the same light in which Europeans, and 
particularly the Germans, view the United States in general. 
They expect to find here the land of promise, where milk and 
honey flows, and are sometimes much disappointed; though many, 
however, derive great advantage from the change. 
We passed through East Liberty, Wilkinsburgh, Murrysville, 
New Alexandria and Blairsville-—all unimportant. The streams 
were the Loyalhanna and the Connamaughe, with high and rocky 
shores. Wooden bridges are thrown over these rivers, but are 
so bad that one of our leaders broke through two planks of one 
of them, and was extricated with much difficulty. In the evening 
we passed over the first of the chains of mountains, which cross 
this country from south-west to north-east, and divide the 
regions of the Mississippi from the Atlantic states. It was 
Chesnut-ridge, which is tolerably high. Beyond this we saw a 
still more mountainous region; the valleys we met with were in 
a state of cultivation. It was eleven o’clock at night before we 
reached Armagh, as the accident on the bridge had detained us 
sometime. At two o’clock, A. M. we continued our journey. 
We rode fifty-eight miles to Alexandria, through Ebensburg, 
Munster, Blair’s Gap, Hollydaysburg, and Williamsburg. A few 
miles beyond Armagh, we came to another of the parallel ridges, 
callel Laurel hill. ^ I ascended the mountain on foot; as the sun 
was just rising, the fresh and green dress of the trees, together 
with the fragrance of the blooming azaleas, made a very pleasing 
impression on me. These honeysuckles were in bloom on al¬ 
most all the mountains which we passed this day; rose-coloured 
kalmias began to bloom; the rhododendrons had not yet com¬ 
menced. The fragrance of the white acacias was often combined 
with that of the azaleas. The other trees which we saw on this 
