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is gone. How I mourned his departure for the other side of the river. How sadly the old residents of Cleveland missed J. A. Harris, after he had left us forever ! A kinder-hearted and better man than he never lived.
While looking over the audience at the last meeting of our Asso- eiation, I could not help feeling sad, for there were many familiar faces missing. I realized then, how many there were whom we loved, respected and esteemed, who had "gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns." It brought to my mind the stately form of my respected unele, the late Judge Samnel Cowles, who died in 1837. It made me think of my departed brother Giles, who died in 1842. He was only twenty-three years, but he was a young man of extraordinary ability. At the age of eighteen he was a partner in business of the late Orlando Cutter, and when their store was burned in 1837, he caught cold, which settled on his lungs and eventually carried him away. Some of the familiar faces ยท which graced the gathering, brought up before me my honored parents, and my brother, the late Judge Samuel Cowles, of San Francisco. This brother studied law in the office of Andrews, Foot and Hoyt, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. In 1852 he and his law partner, E. B. Mastick, Esq., went to California. My brother died in 1880, and Mr. Mastick is still living, a prominent lawyer of San Francisco. As one of the trustees acting under the will of Mr. James Lick, he has charge of the construction of the largest telescope the world has yet seen. The objeet glass of the largest now in existence is twenty-eight inches in diameter. That Mr. Mastiek is overseeing will be thirty-six inehes in diameter, and it is caleulated it will bring the moon to within twelve miles of the earth. But I have departed from my theme.
My mind wandered back in the past, and I thought of many good men and women, early settlers, who have gone to their final earthly homes in the Erie street and Woodland cemeteries. I made a draft on my memory and brought to mind the names of the following early settlers who lived here forty to forty-five years ago, who are now sleeping in those cemeteries :
T. P. May, Dr. David Long, John Blair, Buckley Stedman, Rev.
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Dr. S. C. Aiken, W. J. Warner, Leonard Case, sen., William Case, Leonard Case, jr., N. C. Winslow, Richard Winslow, H. J. Winslow, Thomas Jones, sen., H. L. Noble, John L. Severance, who lies alone in his grave in Southampton, England; Solomon Severance, Varnum J. Card, Ex Post-master Aaron Barker, Judge John W. Willey, the first Mayor of Cleveland; Ex-Mayor Joshua Mills, George Hoadley, the father of the Governor ; John M. Woolsey, George C. Dodge, J. F. Hanks, Richard Hilliard, Ex-Mayor Nicholas Dockstader, Gov. Wood, Ex-Mayor W. B. Castle, Judge and Ex-Mayor Samuel Starkweather, Ex-Mayor Nelson Hayword, Ex-Mayor H. M. Chapin, Orlando Cutter, A. D. Cutter, Henry W. Clark, Col. Clark, his nephew who was killed during the rebellion ; Judge H. V. Wilson, Judge Sherlock J. Andrews, Judge John Barr, Elisha T. Sterling, Ahaz Merchants, S. A. Hutchinson, A. S. Hutchinson, George A. Benedict, Editor Herald ; Hon. Edward Wade, J. F. Clark, Alexander Seymour, Prof. J. P. Kirkland, Prof. H. A. Ackley, Prof. John Delamater, Prof. Jehu Brainard, P. M. . Weddell, Peter P. Weddell, Wm. McGaughey, Judge T. M. Kelley, T. H. Beckwith, Lewis Handerson, Dr. Robert Johnston, Benjamin Rouse, Rev. Dr. Levi Tucker, Captain John Perry, Nathan Perry, Oliver H: Perry, Edwin Stair, John Stair, Benjamin Stair, Prof. Mendenhall, latterly of the Cincinnati Medical College ; the two Proudfoot brothers, A. M. Perry, William Lemen, Tom Lemen, Philo Scoville, Benjamin Harrington, formerly post-master ; J. W. Gray, Editor Plain Dealer and formerly post-master ; N. A. Gray, Melancton Barnet, Deacon Whitaker, Deacon Hamlin, Dr. Henry Everett, Wm. J. May, George May, A. W. Walworth, Deacon Fox, H. B. Hurlbut, Milo Hickox, John Gill, Harmon Kingsbury, Elijah Bingham, Silas Belden, Nelson Monroe, Deacon W. A. Otis, Capt. Sartwell, Charles M. Giddings, N. E. Crittenden, George Worthington, Thomas Brown, formerly Editor of the True Democrat ; Judge Solomon Stoddard and his three Sons, Charles G. Aiken, J. F. Taintor, Charles Bradburn, Judge Thomas Bolton, Moses Kelly, J. M. Gillette, Elijah Sanford, Capt. Moses Ross, David Morrison, sen., Henry Gaylord, Aaron Stickland, Joseph Ross, Seth A. Abbey, Dr. W. A. Clark, Samuel Raymond, Woolsey
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Welles, Richard Lord, Samuel Williamson, Robert Williamson, Rev. Dr. S. B. Canfield, Rev. Dr. Bury, E. F. Punderson, Rev. Wm. Day, James H. Kellogg, Edward Baldwin, Joseph Sarjeant, W. D. Beattie, Horatio Ford, J. H. Crittenden, Charles A. Shepard, Edward Shepard, O. E. Huntington, Edward White, James Houghton, N. M. Standart, Dr. B. S. Lyman, E. C. Rouse, J. L. Weatherly, Dr. Terry, D. L. Beardsley, Gen. D. L. Wood, Augustus Merwin, J. M. Hughes, I. N. Halliday, Judge Reuben Hitchcock, Erastus Smith, Jacob Lowman, S. Brainard, Henry Mould, Henry J. Mould, .Prof. J. Lang Cassel, C. Stetson, J. B. Bartlet, Hon. Franklin T. Backus, Judge J. P. Bishop, Deacon Moses White, Henry Seaman, Sylvester Ranney, Horatio Ranney, - Seaman, of Seaman & Smith ; Wm. Mittleberger, Wm. Sholl, John B. Waring, Darwin Severance, Col. Lawrence, Gov. J. W. Fitch, Daniel W. Fiske, J. E. James, the old sexton of the Stone Church; Uncle Abram Hickox, Levi Bauder, John Wills, Wm. Milford, Herrick Childs, Oscar A. Childs, Judge Josiah Barber, Deacon S. H. Sheldon, Joel Scranton, Marshal Carson, S. S. Coe, Reuben Champion, Zalmon Fitch, Grant Fitch, Wm. J. Brooks, - Gardner, of Gardner & Vincent ; J. R. Stafford, Dr. C. D. Brayton, J. H. Gorham, Isaac Taylor, Henry S. Stevens, M. B. Scott, John H. Guptil, R. H. Blackmer, Capt. L. A. Pierce, James S. Clark, Henry F. Clark, Lieutenant Allen Norton, E. W. Andrews, B. L. Spangler, Capt. Levi Johnson, Thomas Richmond, Gurdon Fitch, John Outhe- waite, T. C. Floyd, James B. Finney, Dr. Amos Pierson, Ambrose Spencer, J. C. Woolson, Judge Joseph Hayward, Judge Q. F. Atkins, Capt. D. Howe, Morris Jackson, Mar- shal S. Castle, Daniel M. Haskell, Uncle Jenkins, the vener- able bachelor, who used to ride a white horse; Uncle Nelson, sexton of Trinity Church ; Dr. P. Mathivet, Wm. Fiske, Capt. J. C. McCurdy, George Tolhurst, S. L. Bingham, Charles A. Dean, George A. Stanley, George W. Stanley, N. Brainard, Dr. Ed. Kelley, John R. St. John, Prentiss Dow, John G. Stockley, Elisha Taylor, Lyman Kendall, C. W. Heard, Anson Hayden, Dr. M. L. Wright, Judge Whittlesey, C. L. Camp, Seth T. Hurd, Dr. A. Underhill, Dr. Weston, Thomas Umbstaetter, David Hersh, Henry
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E. Butler, Deacon A. Wheeler, Stephen C. Whitaker, Joseph S. Lake, James E. Craw, Samuel Foote, John E. Cary, Stephen S. Clary, - Brewster, the school-master; Carnarhan Aiken, Son of Rev. Dr. Aiken, who died at sea; Robert Parks, Israel P. Converse, - Barstow, - Kingsley, who was drowned at Sandus- ky, brother of H. C. Kingsley ; Harmon Handy, Rev. Joseph Breck, Flavel W. Bingham, Aaron Clark, Dr. Thomas G. Cleveland.
There are others who were prominent, but they are beyond the reach of my memory. The foregoing list comprises some of the best known citizens, who lived in Cleveland forty to forty-five years ago, when it had only an average population of about ten thousand. Now our city has a population of about twenty-one times that number. Can it now show twenty-one times the number of citizens comprising the list I have given of equal standing ? I doubt very much if it can, when to this list should be added the names of early prominent citizens who are now living. Among the dead of the early settlers are these legal lights : Andrews, Hitchcock, Wade, Kelly, Bolton, Backus, Stetson, Starkweather, Williamson, Wilson, and Bishop. Can our bar to-day, consisting of ten times as many members nearly all modern settlers, match that array of legal names in standing ? Among the scientific names, which have added to the social quality of Cleveland forty years ago, are those of Kirtland, the Agassiz of the West, Delamater, St. John, Ackley, Mendenhall and Cassel, none of whom are now living, and I will add the names of Prof. H. L. Smith, of Hobart college, Geneva, N. Y .; General Charles Whittlesey, the well known geologist, who both are living and who were residents of Cleveland forty years ago.
The clergy of Cleveland forty and forty-five years ago had a galaxy of names noted for their profoundness, ability, learning and eloquence. There were the Rev. Dr. Aiken, pastor of the Old Stone Church ; Rev. Dr. S. B. Canfield, of the Second Presbyterian Church ; Rev. Dr. Levi Tucker, pastor of the Baptist Church ; Rev. Dr. Perry, of St. Paul, and Rev. Lloyd Winsor, of Trinity. Besides these I can add the name of that famous Millerite clergyman, Rev. Mr. Fitch, a man of great learning, sincerity and eloquence, and who honestly believed that the world would come
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to an end in 1844. Intellectually he was a great man. Can the clergy of Cleveland to-day produce an equal number of names of equal ability ?
This brings to mind that Cleveland forty years ago, or more strictly speaking thirty-eight years ago, had a lecture bureau of her own, and instead of importing lecturers from outside of her limit, the bureau drew on her home talents and the lectures delivered were fully as interesting as any of those of the foreign lights. Dr. Aiken gave a lecture on the history of the Greek Church, Dr. Canfield on the Life and Times of Oliver Cromwell, Rev. Lloyd Winsor on the French Revolution, Dr. Terry on Charles the First, Edward Wade on the Convention that formed the Constitution, Albert G. Lawrence, on Sir Walter Raleigh, John B. Waring on some commercial subject, Prof. H. L. Smith on chemical science, Prof. St. John on a theme which I have forgotten, George Bradburn, who afterwards became one of the editors of the True Democrat, now the Leader, dilated on his experience in England, - in those days it was considered a great thing to have been to England, - and James A. Briggs, delivered a lecture on " The Greatness of our Country," or something to that effect. Mr. Bradburn in his lecture took occasion to put our country sadly at a disadvantage in comparing her with the greatness of England. He was followed shortly afterwards by Mr. Briggs, who made a sort of an indignant reply to Mr. Bradburn. That gentleman had the misfortune to be deaf and sat on the platform, where he could hear. The burden of Mr. Brigg's address was decrying the claims set up by Mr. Bradburn of the superior greatness of Brittannia as compared with our country, and while dealing out his sarcasm he would look at that gentleman and bow to him. Mr. Bradburn received the salutation in an immovable manner. Mr. Briggs afterwards became editor of the same paper, the True Democrat, that Mr. Bradburn subsequently edited.
The lecture which created the most interest was that delivered by the Rev. Dr. Canfield, on Oliver Cromwell, in which he made an able defence of that great soldier and statesman from the bitter attacks of the adherents of the Church of England. He quoted
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from the writings of Thomas Carlyle to sustain his statements. He took the position that Hume, the historian, was an infidel, con- sequently was interested in denouncing Cromwell, the Puritan Christian. It was a most logical and eloquent lecture. It divided the community into two factions-the Cromwell and Anti-Cromwell, the latter being composed of Episcopalians. Among them was a lawyer by the name of L. C. Turner, who had written frequently for the Herald over the nom de plume of "Otsego." He was a very high churchman and probably honestly believed that there was no salvation outside the pale of his church. He took upon himself to come out in the Herald and criticize Mr. Canfield's lecture, in which he said he was snsprised that the "reverend" - the quotation is his - gentleman should repudiate the great historian Hume as authority, because of his being an infidel, and at the same time accept the statement in defence of Cromwell of a notorions blasphemer like Carlyle who had been imprisoned for blasphemy ! A correspondent in Akron wrote a reply, in which he exposed the ignorance of "Otsego." It seemed that individual had confounded Thomas Carlyle, who spells his name with a "y," with Richard Carlisle, who spells his with "is," and who was im- prisoned in London for blasphemy. In spite of his humiliating defeat, "Otsego " came back with another letter, in which he acknowledged his mistake, but notwithstanding all that, Carlyle was nevertheless a blasphemer, and made a quotation from his " Hero Worship " of apparently blasphemous expressions to prove his assertion. The Akron writer returned to the charge with another communication in which he showed up the tricky character of " Otsego." It seemed he selected a blasphemous expression, Carlyle had ascribed to Satan, and tried to palm it off as being the sentiment of that great essayist. Mr. " Otsego " never appeared in print after that, as least I never saw any more of his effusions.
Another incident occurred in connection with the course of lectures by home talent. Prof. St. John of the Cleveland Med- ical College, an eminent scientist and literateur, gave a lecture, the subject of which I have forgotten, but it was admired by all who heard it. Cleveland at that time was blessed by the 6
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presence of a conceited legal sprig by the name of Dudley, who had imported himself from New Hampshire. He pompously advertised himself as having been a former law partner of Ather- ton, the infamous author of the gag law bearing his name. This. man Dudley published a communication, charging Prof. St. John with having committed plagiarism by stealing his lecture. from J. S. Headley, and palming it off as his own .. This charge. created quite an excitement, for the Professor was looked upon as being incapable of committing such a thing. Dudley published in his communication an extract from Headley's lecture, the senti- ment of which sounded, it was claimed, very much like some of the Professor's utterances. Finally H. C. Kingsley, Esq., now of New Haven, took the manuscript of the lecture and compared it with that of Headley's, and found the sentiments in certain parts were somewhat similar to those of Headley's, but the language. was entirely different. This disposed very thoroughly the charge of plagiarism, and that busy-body Dudley soon disappeared, no- body knew where.
The early settlers of Cleveland show to advantage, as compared with the later settlers, by furnishing most of the prominent military characters who served during the war of the Rebellion. Herewith is a list as far as I can gather from the recesses of my memory :
Gen. James Barnet, Gen. Lucius Fairchild, of Wisconsin, Gen. Charles Whittlesey, Gen. David L. Wood, Col. O. H. Payne, Col. W. H. Hayward, Col. Timothy H. Ingraham, Col. Clark (who was killed in battle), Lieut. Colonel Perry (son of Capt. John Perry), Lieut. Col. Lawrence, Lieut. Col. Crane (killed at Ringgold), Major George A. Mygatt, Maj. Seymour Race, Maj. Dwight Palmer, Maj. Carlton, Captain P. W. Rice, Capt. E. C. Rouse, Capt. Homer Baldwin, Capt. John Nevins, Capt. Wm. Nevins, Capt. George W. Tibbitts, Capt. Standart.
The foregoing is a very good record for the early settlers, con- sidering the smallness of their number to draw from. The num- erons later settlers comparatively furnished few military names.
Among the early settlers we find the names of Gov. Fairchild of Wisconsin, Gov. Wood, Gov. Hoadley, and Lieutenant Gov. J.
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W. Fitch, Senators Henry B. Payne, and John P. Jones of Nevada. The early settlers furnished the following congressmen, namely, Hon. John W. Allen, Hon. Sherlock J. Andrews, Hon. Edward Wade and Hon. H. B. Payne.
The distinguished names I have given prove very conclusively that the settlers who lived in Cleveland previous to 1844, small as they were, numerically speaking, as compared with the modern settlers, outnumbering them twenty to one, furnished the bulk of the brains for the now mighty city of Cleveland with its nearly a quarter of a million of population.
I have dilated on the interesting past more than I intended, and I will close by relating a little incident which the Hon. John A. Foot omitted for obvious reasons from his eulogistical remarks on Judge Andrews, in which he described the humorous phrases in the character of that great jurist and lawyer, and his proneness for perpetrating jokes. The year of 1842 was the era when the Wash- ingtonian temperance movement was at its height. That old " sea dog," Capt. Turner, was one of its moving spirits, and made many temperance speeches homely, but very forcible and popular. Mr. Foot was engaged in the good work with all the enthusiasm of his nature. At that time he was a law partner of Judge Andrews, and the firm was known as " Andrews, Foot & Hoyt." Just below their office was a notorious whiskey shop, known as the "Hole in the Wall." One day while Mr. Foot was busy with the good work in the cause of temperance, he came into the office. There were present, Judge Andrews, Mr. Hoyt, and an Englishman from Euclid, whose name I have forgotten. As Mr. Foot was about leaving, the Judge put on a serious expression of countenance and commenced giving brother Foot this feeling advice : "Now, Foot, I wish you would refrain from your visits to the Hole-in-the-Wall. Try and walk by without entering that place. Remember your family, the reputation of our firm, and your standing as a professed temperance man. How can you afford to risk all by entering that place. Now try and go by the Hole-in-the-Wall without entering it." The Englishman, completely sold by the mock gravity of the Judge, spoke up in his native brogue-" Advice well put, Mr. Foot.
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- he pronounced that name "Fut" - well put. Let me tell you, you had better accept it and cease going to that Hole-in-the-Wall." Mr. Foot gazed at the Englishman with astonishment that he should be mistaken as a toper, and then turned around and darted out of the door down into the street.
Hoping to have the privilege and pleasure of meeting all of the members of our Association alive and in the enjoyment of good health at our next gathering, I remain
Yours of the present as well as of the past,
EDWIN COWLES.
OLDEST HOUSE ON THE RESERVE.
In the " Annals of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County," published in 1883, is an account of an old house standing at the corner of Hanover and Vermont streets, in Cleveland (West Side), said to be about two hundred years old. That a house of that age exists within the borders of the Western Reserve will be news to most of its citizens.
Mr. Robert Sanderson is its present owner. Many may have doubts of its antiquity. We have some evidence - not exactly corroborative-regarding an old house which once stood near the site of this : Colonel James Hillman, Youngstown's earliest settler, in a letter written in 1843 (found on page 363 of Colonel Whittle- sey's Early history of Cleveland), relates a journey as pack-horse man, in 1796, from Pittsburgh to the mouth of Cuyahoga river with goods, to be taken thence to Detroit by water. He says that near the mouth of Tinker's Creek "we crossed the Cuyahoga and went down the west side to the month. In going down we passed a small log trading house, where one Meginnis traded with the Indians. He left the house in the Spring before we were there." He adds, that on a subsequent trip that Summer he, and those with him, drew small logs and built a hut at a spring near where Main street comes to the river, "which, I believe, was the first house built on the Cleveland side."
He speaks of the Meginnis house as a "small log house." The
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"old house" described by Mr. Sanderson was a two-story house with chestnut siding-a very different house. If it had been at or near the mouth of the river Mr. Hillman would probably have seen it and mentioned it in his letter. And yet it may have been built where stated by Mr. Sanderson and have been one of the age named. If it was about two hundred years old ,it was erected, say in 1683. If one hundred and forty years old, in 1743.
More than two hundred years ago the French possessed Canada, which they called " New France." They were pushing their settle- ments and trading posts westward along the great lakes and rivers. In 1683 they founded Detroit, and had probably at that time visited the mouth of the Cuyahoga. About 1753 they had erected Fort Duquesne, at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela, near Pittsburgh. It is not improbable that they may have had trading posts on the south shore of Lake Erie, and perhaps the "old house " was one of them. JOHN M. EDWARDS.
Youngstown, O.
RECOLLECTIONS OF AN EARLY DAY.
A short account of my own experience in traveling and of the manner of transit of some goods, during the early settlement of the Western Reserve, may interest some readers.
I left my home in the State of steady habits, the first of March 1812, in company with two young men, having a team loaded with tea, axes, and scythes for New-Connecticut. It was their second peddling trip west. Nothing of special interest occurred during our month's journey. The goods were left in Hartford, Trumbull county, as a base for their supplies in their short excursions in the settlements to dispose of their goods. On their first excursion, they bargained a chest of tea to Martin Bushnell, of Claridon, who had subsequently sold it to John Bartholomew, of Hambden. Mr Bushnell was to take the chest in Hartford, and deliver it to Mr. Bartholomew in Hambden. A part of my outfit for the West was a low chest, about twenty inches in width, and about the same in height, and about five feet in length, containing an axe, scythe,
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hoe, and some clothing, which were left to be brought with the tea. I had come to Claridon and informed Bushnell that his tea was ready. He left with horse, saddle and harness on the horse. At the place of receiving the two chests, he constructed a dray from poles much in the form of a ladder, with two or more cross- pieces, one end of the poles passing through the thill straps, the other end drawing on the ground, the tugs being fastened to the thills by a pin of wood. Necessity is said to be the mother of in- vention. Surely the above described vehicle for conveyance was as primitive as well could be. He returned in a few days without the chests, having left them in Vienna, making ten miles in advance with the loading, saying the mud was so deep it would be necessary to wait a few days for the ground to dry some. In the forepart of April, it was arranged for me to go with his horse, which I found spring poor. Passing over minor incidents, I found myself benighted in the woods and swamp bordering Musquito Creek. Following the trail by star-light I came across another trail angling to the right a little, which I took as having the most tracks, which led me into a clearing of some ten acres, with a hay stack from which hay had been drawn. Returning to the forks of the road, and taking then the right path, I soon came to an ocean of water, according to the night vision. A few rods ahead was evidently a log bridge just above the surface of the water. Wad- ing on, I found a bridge in the midst of the water, covered with large round sticks of timber lying so much on the surface of the water that they would settle under the horse's feet. The bridge being short, I waded into the water, some two or three feet deep, lessening in depth as I approached the sight of land, the water probably extending some sixty or hundred rods. In the course of a mile I came to a log-house. waking the inmates about midnight. I was admitted to quite comfortable quarters. Next morning, I made my way to where the chests were, and harnessed my horse. Adjusting the dray and putting on the chests, I was soon in the woods homeward bound. The waters in the creek had fallen a little, so that the chests were above the water, and the bridge com- paratively safe. The view and trail were not attractive, but not so
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imposingly fearful as the previous night's view. The day was warm and sultry. Towards night it became cloudy. Not having a time-piece, and darkness coming on sooner than expected, I was in the Champion Woods, with many miles of forest ahead in Champion and Southington, with a narrow road, some of the way being mud and other parts corduroy, logs laid cross ways, the horse showing unmistakable signs of fatigue. Deep darkness ensued, and flashes of lightning, and distant thunder greeted my ears. I was tired, walking all day slowly. The air was compar- atively still, just commotion enough to see the wind was southerly. Soon the wind was roaring, the forked lightning more vivid, dark and heavy clouds rolling from the northwest. The horse stopped, so tired that the load could not be drawn any further. A large oak tree had been turned up by the roots, leaving the trunk some three feet above the ground. As the lightning flashed, I com- prehended the situation. Although as dark as Egyptian darkness, between the long and swift chains of fire I succeeded in placing the two chests under the fallen tree, the bark of which was loose. I pulled off strips of thick bark and putting them against the tree to turn the rain off from the chests, flung the dray on the other side of the road. Now came the wind and torrents of rain. The thunder shook the earth. The tall, dead, girdled trees along the line of the narrow road might be good magnets for the electric fluid, and the timber dangerous missiles when thrown by violent gusts of wind. The whole scene was appalling. Real danger that cannot be avoided helps to keep the mind calm and cool. I was soon cool enough, as there was not a dry thread in my clothes, and the change of air from heat to cold was sudden, with many degrees of change. In the course of half an hour or so, the torrents ceased to a moderate shower, with a corresponding abatement of wind and thunder. I started the horse, driving him before me as best I could. Without any cessation of the moderate rain, there came another shower, from another very dark cloud, which, how- ever, was not as intense either in lightning, wind or rain, which for some hours continued, raining more or less in quantity, until I came to a log hut, inhabited to my great joy. The man getting up,
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