Chapter Summary
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 3, 1832
Rain and bad weather; very cool, in addition. Almost all of us had head colds or rheumatic sensations because of rapid changes [in the weather]. We worked on the descriptions and sketches of the Aspidonectes and the Ohio salamander (Menopoma Harl.) and packed a collection of Ohio mussels (Unio), of which twenty-four species are said to be here. We had found most of them.