84 Observations made during a Touy through America. 
travel through this township with great 
Caution, our horses’ feet often catching in 
the network, from which they with diffi- 
culty, extricated themselves. The rot- 
-ten parts also frequently gave way, 
when the horses would sink deep 
Into slimy mud. We however arrived 
at our hospitable friend’s comfort- 
able house at Warren before it was night, 
and refreshed ourselves with some ex- 
cellent Lisbon wine. Three days rest 
recovered my companions from their fa- 
tigues, as well as our horses, whose hoofs 
were much mjured by the Rootsburgh 
roads; my own health, however, was not 
so speedily restored*. We parted from 
our Warren friends on the 19th, and tra- 
velled twelve miles to dinner at Young’s 
Town, the best settled township then in 
the district, with the greatest quantity of 
cleared land. After partaking of some 
roasted mutton, green peas, and currant 
tarts, ata very neat tavern, we examined 
the township, the land of which falls far 
short of that nearer the lake; nor was 
the timber any thing like that we had been 
accustomed to, either in girt or height: 
however, we were gratified by some very 
pleasing prospects and a view of several 
very neat houses. Young’s Town then 
* I may be permitted to mention the con- 
sequences arising to myself from the journey 
from Cleveland to Warren, as they may afford 
a practica] lesson to medical men. For a day 
or two Il was very unwell, had some fever, 
and a troublesome cough ; the former left me, 
but the cough continued without sensible in- 
crease until the middle of the following Au- 
gust; whenit became very violent, and con- 
tinued to increase until October. By that 
time my strength had very much failed me, 
my cough was very violent, I had cold sweats 
during the night, with other general symp- 
toms of debility. My medical friends agreed 
with me in opinion, that I could not long 
continue a member of this world, when, on 
the 18th of October a most violent and ex- 
hausting coughing fit, which lasted full six 
hours, forced from my lufigs a stone which 
weighed upwards of eleven grains and a half, 
Ywith a large quantity of blood. Presuming 
that anulcer was formed in the lungs, tinc- 
ture of foxglove was prescribed, but ] appeared 
‘to make no approaches towards health. At 
fast thinking I could not live, I lett off my 
medicine, and took a smali quantity of some 
. excellent Philadelphia porter, which had been 
prohibited me. ‘The next day I encreased 
- the quantity and so continued to do, until I 
took abottle a day; after which I rapidly re- 
sovered my health, and have never since been 
wgeubled with any pulmonary affection. 
[Feb. i 3 
contained one hundred and eight families, 
and is well supplied with excellent water. 
Land sold high, and good town-lots of a 
quarter of an acre each, for one hun- 
dred dollars, Boards were ten dollars 
the thousand. The crops were appa; 
rently heavy andgood. On the 20th, al- 
ter winding for about three miles along 
the banks of the Beevor, we crossed that 
river at a fording-place, rendered difhcult 
by rocks and stones, and proceeded to 
breakfast at Poland, the township by 
which we entered this beautiful country. 
That night we slept at Greensburgh, and 
the following at Beevortown. ‘The future 
Importance of this rising town was now 
clearly apparent. Situate in a country 
where excellent coal is extremely cheap, 
at the mouth of a large river, navigable 
even now through a most extensive and 
productive country, and which will un- 
doubtedly be soon connected by canals 
with the navigable waters which empty 
into Lake Erie; supplied with the ne- 
cessary articles of Lake Salt and Lake 
fish, at reasonable prices, and which 
hereafter must be cheaper;—it is by nature 
marked as the seat of future manufac- 
tures, particularly when we consider that 
the price of the carriage for foreign ma- 
nufactures, will act as a bounty on 
Beevor town industry, -and that industry — 
may supply the vast country watered by 
the Ohio and its connecting rivers. 
Having arrived at Pittsburgh on the 
22nd, we pushed on for Washington by 
the way of Greenusburgh on the 25th. 
This town is the capital of Westmoreland, 
and is called after the celebrated Gene- 
ral Green, It consists of about twe 
hundred houses, and has a very neat 
court-house and public olfices attached 
to it. Ou the evening of the twenty- 
sixth we got to Stomatown, after riding 
thirty-eight miles. [thes at the foot of 
the Chesnut, the most westerly of the 
great line of mountains, has a good ta- 
vern, and about thirty-eight families set- 
tled therein. From this towmit 1s twelve 
wiles to the summit of the Alleghany. 
Having crossed the Chesnut, we had next 
to encounter the Laure! Mountain, which 
has its name from the abundance of that 
shrub, with which it is covered, and which 
was now in all its elegance and blossom. 
From the foot of the Laurel for- three 
miles and a ualf, the road is extremely 
steep and rocky; it then became good 
“across the Alleghany, whose summit is 
thought to be hiere the highest point of 
land in this part of America, Itis re- 
markable,: 
