Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Wheeling” in chapter 5, page 59 of Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe:
...; there we shall take the steamboat to Cincinnati.
On the same journey George Beecher writes:--
We had poor horses in crossing the mountains.
Our average rate for the last four days to Wheeling was forty-four miles. The journey, which takes the
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