Journey from Bethlehem in Pennsylvania to New Harmony on the Wabash
Reading – Harrisburg on the Susquehanna – Picturesque Juniata Valley – Height of the Alleghenies – Stay at Ebensburg – Hunting excursions – Laurel Hill – Blairsville – New Alexandria – Pittsburgh – Economy on the Ohio – Society of Mr. Rapp – Wheeling – Navigation of the Ohio – Marietta – Parkersburg – Cincinnati – Louisville– Mount Vernon
October 4, 1832
In the morning, bright sunshine; the weather has cleared up. Work on the animal drawings was continued. At ten o’clock Dr. Saynisch visited a professor of chemistry, Mr. Peter, who owns several natural history specimens, and a Mr. Graff, who has a fine shellfish collection. At noon There are said to be sixty to seventy varieties of freshwater shellfish west of the Alleghenies. In his work with colored illustrations, Lea describes fifty-four species of the genus Unio.
Dr. Saynisch had collected about twenty species near Pittsburgh, including the following: 1. Unio rugosus; 2. aesopus; 3. occidens; 4. abruptus; 5. irroratus; 6. orbiculatus; 7. gibbosus; 8. cylindricus; 9. praelongus; 10. scalenius; 11. torsus; 12. ellipticus; 13. Anodonta areola; 14. cuneatus; 15. mytiloides; (and) 16. alatus.
We let the magnetic needle oscillate, and it gave us 142 1/2 oscillations at twelve noon. Dreidoppel was suffering from severe toothache. The magnetic stroke, which helped immediately in Bethlehem, has no effect here.