25th We rode to , Berrian Co
state of Michigan & spent the night with Br distance 20 miles
Notes of the Country
From to is a fine prarie country with
a mixture of timber, good improvements settelled mostly
with eastern people. 9 miles west of Ottaway is a
Norwegian (about 50 Saints among them).
From Newark to is a fine country well improved
stands about 3 miles from Juliett a
splendid work of art. canal passes through Juliett. it is a
fine town. from Juliett east the land is not so good
on to line, more wet & swampy. As we come
near the Indiana line we struk a sand ridge with
a large swamp or swail on the North. a miserable country
not worth paying taxes for except the timber. many
dwellings we passed all empty. we passed this kind
of country to which is in Lake Co
most of which is poor even on to in
Porter Co Ia. about 12 miles west of the land
begins to improve for several miles their is a great
forest of shugar maple beach oak & a great variety of
timber which is Joined on the east by a most splended
prairie under a high state of improvement to La port
which is the beautiy of the state of Indian[a]. the
land was poor about 5 miles to . Niles is a
flourishing town. we soon come to a forest
of heavy timber of beach maple, Ash, oak, &
untill we reached little , which
is a fine prairie. their is much good timber
betwen little prairie round & yet
the land is mostly poor, many oak barrens,
sandy, & stoney land. We pronounced Kalamazo
the best town we had seen since we left
the town of north of
is heavy timberd. the country is ordinary everidge
of land
