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   YALE
    HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS

    I

    PUBLISHED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE
    DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
    FROM THE INCOME OF

    THE FREDERICK JOHN KINGSBURY
    MEMORIAL FUND




    A
    Journey to Ohio
    in 1810



    As Recorded in the Journal of
    MARGARET VAN HORN DWIGHT

    Edited with an Introduction by
    MAX FARRAND

    New Haven
    YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS




    COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Printed in the United States of America

    First published, October, 1912
    Second printing, December, 1912
    Third printing, December, 1913
    Fourth printing, April, 1920
    Fifth printing, October, 1933

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INTRODUCTION


"If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play
needs no epilogue;" and Rosalind might well have added that a good story
needs no prologue. The present