that if the country is ever settled
they must be ditched

29th we staid until near noon when
we set out & Rode about 12 Miles to
wolf's tavern where we were well enter-
tained, through the course of the Day
we passed the little Miamia a small
stream at a mill it was enclosed in
a narrow stone gutter which contd
narrow with a great fall the Chasm
increased in depth until we supposed
it was 50 feet deep & about 20 feet
wide at the top in about 6 miles
we passed the Yellow spring it
was large & proceeded out of a Lime
-stone Rock. & tinged [delete: the] every thing
with a deep yellow with a strong
sulphurious taste & is much resorted
to in the summer season for health

30th set out early & rode to dayton
thro some excellent land