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Mahantango Mountain, ½ an hour took us over, we then crossed Mahantango Creek over a high Frame Bridge, this is a longer stream, we were then a little surprised with the Road turning so much easterly, but we found it was to lead us through a gap in a Mountain, we have had a num-ber of such gaps to go through between great Mountains, indeed for many miles back there is a very little but Mountains. we got to a Dutch house a while before night, 10 miles, but every thing looked so dirty, that with their leave, we prepar-ed out of the Waggon, our own Supper and went to bed, but there was our greatest mortification, we had not been long in bed, before the Landlady, sent two Men who were travelers into our Room to lodge in another Bed, My Husband and Wm sleeping in the Waggon as usual, we lay very quiet and rose before day. 30 miles 25 7th day had a very rough Road 4 miles to Hoonston’s Tavern, where we wished to have gotten last evening, we then crossed green Briar Creek &; passed along