30 Sunday I rode to Br John Benbow's on the prairie
6 miles from Nauvoo & preached at his house
& spent the night this was the first time I had been
to his house since my returne to Nauvoo I spent the
time vary plesantly while there his farm looked almost
like the garden of Eden I never had seen more
work done in one year on a prairie farm than on his
he had usurrounded it & crossed it with heavy ditches
& planted thorn hedges his dwelling, barns, sheds, garden
yards, orchards, &c waere all beautifully aranged
it much resembled some of the fairms of old England
it will be a plesant retreat for a summers ride
from Nauvoo the little Neighbourhood now consists
of five families from England all well united excepting
Wm Benbow who has denyed the faith & is a family by
himself I spent the evening about conversing with the
Brethren 6 miles
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