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settled in this place. Thirty miles farther on 
stands Staunton. This town tarries on'a con- 
trade with the back country, and 
contains nearly two hundred dwellings, mostly 
bddt of stone, together with a church. This 
was the first place on the entire road from 
Lynchburg!!, one hundred and fifty miles dis¬ 
tant, and which I was about ten days in travel¬ 
ling, where T was not able to get a bit of fresh 
meat, excepting indeed on passing the Blue 
Mountains, where they brought me some ve¬ 
nison that had been just killed. I went on fifty 
miles farther, from Staunton, before I got any 
again. Salted pork, boiled with turnip tops 
by way of greens, or fried bacon, or fried salted 
fish, with warm sallad, dressed with vinegar and 
the melted fat which remains in the frying-pan 
after dressing the bacon, is the only food to be 
got at the most of the taverns in this country; 
in spring it is the constant food of the people 
in the country; and indeed, throughout the 
whole year, I am told, salted meat is what they 
most generally use. 
In every part of America a European is 
surprised at finding so many men with military 
titles, and still more so at seeing such num¬ 
bers of them employed in capacities .apparently 
inconsistent with their rank; for it is no¬ 
thing uncommon to see a .captain in the 
shape of a waggoner, a colonel the. driver of a 
