TUESDAY, October 29.  Pass through Butler County into Hamilton, and stay all night in Cincinnati, at the Franklin House, kept by Ross.

WEDNESDAY, October 30.  Visit Dr. Curtis and settle with him. [Dr. Curtis was at this time a very noted Thompsonian doctor located in Cincinnati.  He was editor of the Botanic Medical Recorder, a journal which was very popular with the advocates of the Thompsonian practice of medicine in its day; and also author of a series of lectures in the same line.—­ED.] Dr. Curtis appears to me as a very kind, open-hearted, well-informed man.  He seems to be very confident as to the future success and final triumph of his favorite system of medical theory and practice.  “Why should we not,” said he, “feel as sure that the might of truth will prevail in this as in other things?  It may be that further experience will shear off some things that we now hold; and add on to our system some others which we as yet lack; but the great principles of truth which underlie our medical creed must remain unshaken, while the laws of health and the inroads of disease remain as they are to-day.”  We then visited the city markets, and about 10 o’clock started for Clermont County, and got to John Dickey’s tavern, where we stay all night.

THURSDAY, October 31.  On to Hillsborough in Highland County; dine and feed at Jacob Runyon’s, and stay all night at Elijah Thurman’s.

FRIDAY, November 1.  On into Ross County, and stay all night at David Kline’s.

SATURDAY, November 2.  Cross Deer Creek and push on across the Scioto river at Boggs’s Mills, and get to Sampson Zimmerman’s, in Hocking County, where we stay all night.

SUNDAY, November 3.  On through Logan on the Hocking river; then down the same river to Warren’s tavern, near Athens, in Athens County, where we stay all night.  The Hocking Valley is a fine, rich country, and I feel to encourage some of our younger people to come here and get good cheap homes.  In this way they might establish the church here, and thus prepare the way of the Lord as John did in the wilderness of Judea.  What an opening there is here for good, industrious people!

MONDAY, November 4.  Down the Hocking river to where the road takes off towards Parkersburg in Virginia, near which place we cross the Ohio river in a horse boat, and stay all night at Henry Dill’s entertainment, in Wood County, Virginia.

TUESDAY, November 5.  To-day we travel thirty-nine and one-half miles on the Parkersburg turnpike, and stay all night at Isaac Martain’s, in Ritchie County, Virginia.

WEDNESDAY, November 6.  Keep the turnpike all day.  Dine and feed our horses at Neeley’s tavern, and stay all night at Clinch’s, three miles west of Clarksburg, in Harrison County.

THURSDAY, November 7.  Through Clarksburg, Prunty Town, Evansville and on to J. Stone’s tavern, in Preston County, where we stay all night.

FRIDAY, November 8.  Cross Laurel mountain, Cheat river, and on to top of Cheat mountain, where we dine and feed at Stemple’s tavern near West Union; then to North Branch to Hays’s where we stay all night.  Fine day.