at Clayton's Ordinary,* *An Ordinary, is another name for a house afford-
ing indifferent entertainment. having crossed the
North Mountain, Timber Ridge, Sandy Ridge
and Capon Mountain; also forded Great Capon
river and North river. Our road led us through
several long and narrow valleys, which were well
timbered and rich; we have also passed large
tracts of mountainous, uncultivated, and doubt-
less never to be cultivated land. It is said deer
are very plenty in the tract through which we
have passed to-day, but none were discovered by
us. Upon some of the mountains, and also in
the valleys, we observed a few tolerably well-
looking farms; we have also noticed several
small sugar camps in the course of this day's
journey.

28th.

Continued our journey,-forded the
Little Capon river, the south branch of Poto-
mac, Patterson's creek, and the north branch of
Potomac. We also travelled over Little Capon
Mountain, South Branch Mountain and North
Branch Mountain, passing through Springfield

,
Frankford and Cresapsburg villages, reaching
Musselman's tavern, near the foot of the Alle-
ghany Mountains; making a journey of 37 miles.

A snow has been falling for some hours upon
the remains of a former snow ten inches in
depth. Our journey to-day has been very en-
tertaining, notwithstanding the severity of the