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The 3d day of June we had everything arranged for our departure. And now, dear reader, if you ever gave the parting hand to beloved brothers and sisters, friends and acquaintances, and bade adieu to the home and scenes of your youth, your imagination can better paint the anguish of my heart than I can describe it with my pen. We hired a teamster to convey us 100 miles. We then took the steamboat across Cayuga lake. Not being used to traveling we saw many things to divert our minds, and call our thoughts from those we left behind. Having friends in Scottsville, N. Y., we spent a week there very pleasantly. We attended meeting while we were there, and heard a very deep and interesting discourse by the Rev. Mr. Cheesman. Little did we think it would be the last we should hear for a year to come. Having visited our friends at that place, we set out once more on our westward journey. On the 19th of the same month we arrived at Detroit, and if ever I was thankful for victuals and drink it was then. As we knew nothing of the situation of the country, only what we had read and heard, we knew not what course to take; but it was our good fortune to form an acquaintance with a gentleman by the name of Gurnsey. He had traveled as far west as Battle Creek and selected a farm near that place. He liked the country very much, and advised us to go in that direction. Having the appearance of a man who could be relied on, we concluded to follow his advice.
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