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
September 25, 1832
During the night there had been a severe rainstorm; in the morning it cleared up a little. The stage arrived, and again there was no room in it for us; we had to endure it here for another day. The passengers had seen Mr. Bodmer back in Reading, where he, too, had been unable to find a seat. Today Dreidoppel went pheasant hunting with a local resident. They returned at noon with a pheasant and a black squirrel, which the master tailor, who had gone hunting, very much enjoyed eating, since he had bagged both of them. Dreidoppel shot a bird of prey (Falco nisus). In the afternoon, in the tall hemlock forest by the mill with its romantic location along Conemaugh Creek, I shot another specimen of the large beautiful Picus lineatus, here called woodcock. These birds have a very loud call.