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but I must confess that "something entirely aside from
the romance and poetry of the thing had its in-
fluence in determining our choice of the pedestrian
mode of travelling. The truth is, neither of us had
the "dimes", to enable us to travel in any other way.

Our friends in Zanesville stared, when we
announced our project, and pronounced it utterly im-
practicable. But we were not to be moved from our
purpose. We started from Zanesville on the 29th of
Sept. 1848, and on the 23d of Oct, found ourselves
on the southern side of the Blue Ridge in Georgia,
and nearby 700 miles from the point of departure.
We had walked the entire distance! We had waded
rivers and climbed mountains, traversing the States of
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and a portion of
Georgia. The greater portion of the distance our route
lay through a mountainous and almost uninhabited
country. Any log cabin at which we happened
to arrive at night furnished us with corn-cake, sweet
potatoes and milk, and a hard bed. With these our wants
were satisfied. These log cabins usually consist of
a single room, in which all men women and chil-
dren, family and strangers, eat, drink and sleep!
To lie in one of these cabins and gaze on the stars
through the big cracks,—dreaming the while of the
palace-homes of the Future, is a priviledge that
few have enjoyed!

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We saw much magnificent scenery among
the mountains. Flocks of wild turkies often crossed our