gether. We shall know more of each other after we have passed the bounds of civilization and camped together on the Western Prara.
Apr 17' We left Albany at noon on the emigrant train for Buffalo having procured tickets through to Cincinnatti on this road we managed to have a car to ourselves. We passed through a beautifuU country from Albany to Buffalo Many fine towns and some citys We arrived in Buffalo on the 17' at 2 oclock proceded direct on board a fine Steamer "name Baltic" bound for Sandusky city. We arrived in Sandusky on the 20th having had a very rough time this being the first trip of the Boat this season the offi- cers and crew were nearly all sick as well as a large number of the passangers. I was as sick as need be and did not get over it under a day or two after land- ing this place has the appearance of having grown up in a short time.
Apr 21st We left Sandusky at five oclock A. M. for Cincinnatti. the first part of the day we passed over a new country houses mostly made of logs and to a New England man there is nothing verry enticeing about them however this must eventually be a populous country. We arrived in Cincin- natti at 9 oclock P. M. put up at the Henry House a first class hotell here we stopped over Sunday On Sunday we went to Church most of us we attended meeting at the Christian Baptist and Orthordox heard good preaching at both places.
Cincinnatti is a great city on the Banks of the Ohio on nearly level land with the exception of that part next the river which is the same as the banks of all the western rivers quite Bluff there is some high ground back of the Citty on which some of us stroled here we had a chance to view Ken- tucky on one side Ohio on the other one free the other [a] slave state Slave labor cannot compete with free labor in making things look thrifty.
Monday Apr 23' 1849 Today we engaged passage in the Steamer Griffin Yeatman for St. Louis. We also bought two waggons for our trip across the plains having sattisfied ourselves we could transport more goods with the same number of mules than we could if we packed mules having got all our baggage on board the Steamer and all being redy we left at 7 P. M. and moved off down the river,
Apr 24' This morning was delightful! and a New England [er] feels a pe- culiar sattisfaction on moving down such a river as the Ohio the trees were leaved out and the banks of the river was beautifull We had a good table set on the boat and a verry fine Captain there was but little change in pasing down the river One thing of note was being let through the locks at Louisville the rapids in the river near this place are such as make it nec- essary for boats of large size to go through the canal and locks at this place we saw Porter the Kentucky giant who stands 7 ft 8 in high he has a fowl- ing piece 10 ft in length and such a cane— he is quite feble now.
Apr 25' Arrived at the mouth of the Ohio at 10 oclock A. M. touched at Cairo The vilages west and south look as though they lacked New
