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at Clayton's Ordinary,* *An Ordinary, is another name for a house afford-ing indifferent entertainment. having crossed the North Mountain, Timber Ridge, Sandy Ridge and Capon Mountain; also forded Great Capon river and North river. Our road led us through several long and narrow valleys, which were well timbered and rich; we have also passed large tracts of mountainous, uncultivated, and doubt-less never to be cultivated land. It is said deer are very plenty in the tract through which we have passed to-day, but none were discovered by us. Upon some of the mountains, and also in the valleys, we observed a few tolerably well-looking farms; we have also noticed several small sugar camps in the course of this day's journey. 28th. Continued our journey,-forded the Little Capon river, the south branch of Poto-mac, Patterson's creek, and the north branch of Potomac. We also travelled over Little Capon Mountain, South Branch Mountain and North Branch Mountain, passing through Springfield, Frankford and Cresapsburg villages, reaching Musselman's tavern, near the foot of the Alle-ghany Mountains; making a journey of 37 miles. A snow has been falling for some hours upon the remains of a former snow ten inches in depth. Our journey to-day has been very en-tertaining, notwithstanding the severity of the