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Excerpt from Notes Made During a Journey in 1821 in the United States of America, From Philadelphia to the Neighbourhood of Lake Erie: Through Lancaster, Harrisburgh, Carlisle Pittsburgh, and Back to Philadelphia; Through Louis Town, Huntingdon,& New Holland; In Search of a Settlement <p>(21st day) - W e came to Butler - I waited upon Mr. Walter Lowry, a democratic representative of the people, who had lived in the very house I was going to; he told me I should not like Scrubgrass, ' but' observed there was a new settlement at Mansfield; he would advise me to go there; this I declined and wished him and Mac a good day; wé then went through a wilderness about 17 miles long, met a man with his rie, but no game. At night we slept at a but, the owner of which was an Irishman whose name was Dixon. We laid our beds on the boards, while the father 45, the daughter 17, and the son 20 years of age, all bundled int0, one bed together, a la mode de grunters; my wife and I laughed heartily at the joke nearly all'night, while Peter played us a tune with his nasal organ, so that upon the whole it was a very diverting scene. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.