SATURDAY, March 15.  This day I mail a letter to Henry Kurtz; one to Daniel Arnold; one to Jacob Basehore, and one to Philip Wampler.

TUESDAY, April 1.  Council meeting in the Garber’s meetinghouse.  Two of Brother Daniel Miller’s sons, viz, Joseph and Jacob, are elected to the deaconship.

SATURDAY, April 5.  Council meeting at our meetinghouse.  Brother Abraham Knopp is elected speaker, and two sons of Brother Samuel Wine in the Brush, viz, Christian and Samuel, are elected to the deaconship.

TUESDAY, April 8.  Council meeting at the Flat Rock.  Isaac Myers is elected speaker; and John Neff, Jacob Wine, and John Hindgartner are elected to the deaconship.  Daniel Miller and I go to the widow Wilkins’s and stay all night.

WEDNESDAY, April 9.  We attend council meeting in Shaffer’s meetinghouse to-day.  John Copp and Thomas Baker are elected to the deaconship.  We stay all night with Brother George Shaffer in Shenandoah County, Virginia.

TUESDAY, April 29.  Prepare for love feast at our meetinghouse.  Brother Henry Kurtz and Brother Shively come to my house to-day and are with us to-night.  To say the least, it is exceedingly pleasant to have such company.  We heard some good speaking done by them at our love feast this evening and night.

SATURDAY, May 3.  Start, in company with brethren Kurtz and Shively, for Botetourt County, Virginia.  Get as far as Brother Jacob Humbert’s in Augusta County, where we stay all night.

SUNDAY, May 4.  Love feast at the Brick meetinghouse to-day.

MONDAY, May 5.  Dine at Brother Coffman’s and stay all night at Brother Jacob Forrer’s.

TUESDAY, May 6.  Through Greenville, and on to Layman’s tavern, in Fairfield, for dinner.  Stop a little in Lexington, then on to Siler’s tavern, where we stay all night.

WEDNESDAY, May 7.  Get breakfast and feed our horses at Luster’s tavern at the Natural Bridge.  This is one of nature’s wonderful curiosities.  But it does not strike me with that degree of astonishment which many seem to feel on a first sight of it.  I am so familiar with God’s sublime works among the mountains of Virginia and those of other states that the view does not impress me with that sense of sublimity and awful grandeur that one might expect from reading the descriptions given of it.  The Natural Bridge appears to me to be nothing more than the remains of a cave, nearly all of the roof of which has long since fallen in and been washed away.  There are many natural bridges in Virginia and Kentucky, but they are mostly underground.  From the Bridge we go on to Brother Peter Ninsinger’s, where we stay all night.

THURSDAY, May 8.  Get to Brother Benjamin Moomaw’s for dinner.  Brother Moomaw gives promise of great usefulness.  We then go to Brother Barnhardt’s, where we stay all night.

FRIDAY, May 9.  The Yearly Meeting opens to-day.  Many Brethren are present.  We stay all night at Brother Haut’s.