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 and vaults beneath. The wings contain kitchen, scullery, apartments for servants, &c.

Like colonel M'Arthur's it is built with freestone, but the stone of the front is all hewn and squared, like the generality of the houses in the new part of Glasgow in Scotland, the stone being very similar both in colour and quality. The situation is like Col. M'Arthur's, being on the brow of the same ridge of hills, and affording nearly the same prospects. Both houses were built by two young Virginians of the {197} name of Morris, who are almost self taught masons and architects, and whose work and style does them much credit.

I returned to town on Friday after breakfast, and dined, supped and slept at Muker's, which is a very good and well frequented inn, and at five o'clock on Saturday the 15th August, I left Chilicothe in the stage with a Mr. M'Cammon of Charleston and two other passengers.

CHAPTER XXXII

Congo—Crouse's mill—Pickaway plains—Beautiful prairies—Tarleton and Lybrant's excellent inn—Vestiges of a great fire—River Hockhocking—New Lancaster—Babb's—Jonathan's creek—Springfield—River Muskingum and falls—Zanesville.

We crossed the Scioto at a ferry from the town, the stage and four horses being all carried over in the boat.

The first two miles were over a rich bottom, subject to inundation from the river floods in the winter. We had then three miles of a hilly country to Congo, a fine settlement in and round a beautiful prairie, a mile long to Crouse's mill. This Crouse is a wealthy man, having a good house and offices, a farm of two sections, containing thirteen hundred acres, and an excellent mill house and mill wrought by a creek which crosses the road and falls into the Scioto