[Heber C. Kimball] 3 August the 3. We left Pitsburgh by coash [coach] to Cumberland, [Maryland]. 125 [miles] most of the way on Rayl [rail] by the National Road. At Cumberland we took the [railroad] cars to Baltimore 140, we took a steem boat fore Phillidelpha. 65 by Steam and 14 by Rail way, then fifty by steam, first waters. 65 miles was [on] the Chesepeake Bay. The other was Delaware River 50 miles we stade in P – - – [Philadephia] two weeks. Left on the 18 twok [took] steam boat fore Burlington [New Jersey] whare we twok coash fore Mount Holly [New Jersey] – at Judg Richards. He twok his cask [coach?] and Caried us to a place called the Square in Burlentown [Burlington] whare we held a woods meting on.
[Source: Kimball, Stanley B. ed, On the Potter's Wheel: The Diaries of Heber C. Kimball]
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