After passing the greenish waters of the gulf stream, we came in sight of land. It was the coast near the capes of Charles and Henry, at the entrance of Chesapeake Bay. In nearing shore a pilot was taken aboard who took complete charge of the ship. There are two lighthouses at the entrance of the bay, one on Cape Charles on the Maryland side and one on Cape Henry, on the Virginia side. The bay is one hundred and seventy miles long and so wide that land could scarcely be seen from either side. On the evening of Oct. 31, 1835, we landed safe at Baltimore, after a pleasant journey from our former home from across the Atlantic Ocean.

After landing at Baltimore, our goods and effects were unloaded from the ship, and also the goods and effects of our neighbors. These goods were loaded on a dray and taken farther into the city into a large warehouse. Baltimore is a fine city and has many fine buildings, one in honor of George Washington, and many fine churches. The largest church is the Catholic Cathedral.

There are many teamsters who had large, heavy freight wagons, drawn with six horses who made it their business to carry goods across the Allegheny Mountains to Wheeling in West Virginia on the banks of the Ohio River. On one of these wagons our goods and effects were loaded and some women and their children who could not make the journey on foot, were seated on top of the wagon a distance of three hundred miles which took us seventeen days to travel. Along the road we passed through many towns, among these were West Minster, Cumberland, Somerset, Union, Little Washington and Brownsville. At the last named town we crossed the Monongahela River.

The road from Baltimore to Wheeling is very mountainous and hilly, and much of the land can never be cultivated. There are rich, fertile valleys with good farms and on every farm the traveler finds large orchards with good apple trees on them. The trees were so full of apples, as much as trees could bear, that the people could not make good use of their apples.