He mentions that he had reached it in thirty days from Boston, and had not lost a pound of his baggage, which had accompanied him in a wagon under the care of some of his hired men.

At Pittsburg he was much struck by the beauty of the mountains and the river, and also by the numbers of flat-boats, loaded with immigrants, which were constantly drifting and rowing past on their way to Kentucky.

From the time of reaching the river his journal is filled with comments on the extraordinary abundance and great size of the various kinds of food fishes.
At last, late in May, he started in a crowded flat-boat down the Ohio, and was enchanted with the wild and beautiful scenery.

He was equally pleased with the settlement at the mouth of the Muskingum; and he was speedily on good terms with the officers of the fort, who dined and wined him to his heart's content.

There were rumors of savage warfare from below; but around Marietta the Indians were friendly.