[Footnote Seventy miles beyond Charlottesville; he gives an itinerary of his journey, making it six hundred and twenty miles in all, by the route he travelled.

On the way he had his horse shod and bought a pair of shoes for himself; apparently he kept the rest of his backwoods apparel.

He sold his gun for L15 and swapped horses again--this time giving L7 l0_s_.

to boot.] After staying only a day at his old home, he set out for Williamsburg, where he was detained a fortnight before the State auditors would settle the accounts of the Kentucky militia, which he had brought with him.

The two things which he deemed especially worthy of mention during this time were his purchase of a ticket in the State lottery, for three pounds, and his going to church on Sunday--the first chance he had had to do so during the year.