Wilford returns to Nauvoo from mission to New England.
17th A cold day among the mountains we
had a slight squal of hail or snow
[FIGURE] I have been for the last two days
reading Stephens works & travels in
Yu Yucatan his second work I red his
first work on my Journey to Nauvoo with
family in 1841. I found them highly
interesting & also the present work it is a
great proof of the truth of the Book of
Mormon I read them with the highest
degree of interest
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17th A cold day among the mountains we had a slight squal of hail or snow [FIGURE] I have been for the last two days reading Stephens works & travels in Yu Yucatan his second work I red his first work on my Journey to Nauvoo with
family in 1841. I found them highly interesting & also the present work it is a great proof of the truth of the Book of Mormon I read them with the highest degree of interest
19th This was one of the awful, fearful, dangerous, exciting, affecting, grand, sublime, and interesting, days Journey I ever took in my life. Our boat was drawn out of the canal on cars prepared to run on the railroad to convey us over the Allegany mountain which is a novel scene indeed to see a canal boat taken apart into 4 sections loaded with freight & passengers & hoisted on a rail road by inclin plains into the air 1500 feet over the highest mountains & then desend into the valley below in the same way & evry rod is attended with the greatest danger & what adds dread to the
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