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Father Winter
Leaving the wagon in the mud, with one person to guard it, the others would walk to the tavern for night number one. The next day they would get the heavily loaded wagon as far as the tavern for night number two. The next day they would get a mile or so further on, and walk back to spend night number three. And as there was a public house every two or three miles, emigrants could always get accommodations—such as they were. Our travelers had a similar, probably a worse, swamp of ten miles to pass below Blissfield, without an inhabitant; and they say they were a week from Manmee to Adrian. In 1850, the writer of this passed that " swamp " nine times by stage that made ten miles an hour, over a well-constructed McAdam road.
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