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Excerpt from The Journal of a Tour Into the Territory Northwest of the Alleghany Mountains: Made in the Spring of the Year 1803, With a Geographical and Historical Account of the State of Ohio Alleghany Mountains. Here commence the extraeis from my journal. For the gratification of my family and a few friends, Ikept a record of the occurrences each day afforded, and fome particulars of the fev eral towns through which we paffed. I was advifed, on my return, to communicate the Geographical articles to the public and I have confented, from a willingnefs to contribute my mite, however infignificant, to the common ock of the topographical knowledge of our country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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."