John Milton Binckley, June 1859 Travel Diary, Page 51

[John Milton Binckley, June 1859 Travel Diary, page 51. Many thanks to William Myers, Mary Davy, Sally Young and Sue Davis for their ongoing research collaboration; specifically to William for providing scans of the original document, and in turn many thanks to Peter Johnston Binckley and Patricia D'Arcy "Trish" Binckley (1951-2007), at the source. This is my rough transcription. Extra paragraph breaks inserted for easier reading.]

jolted up and down with such regularity and to such degree that they are in common struck by the [?] and we pass along all in a laugh as if we had partaken the laughing gas."

In the mirror at the [?] End of car, observe my face, little widened by consequence of distance of reflection, and unmask its very great resemblance to father's.

Point out on the left (it is Early sunset) a lovely grove, enriched by the night, and mother asks, astonished that anything beautiful could come out of the Hoosier state, "So this is Indiana, too?" But happily, better than nothing, it was yet in Ohio.

[West] Manchester -- inconsiderable town -- near by, a "charing" -- burning brush heaps, log piles, trees etc., lately been a logrolling, not congressional, but rural. A fine night to to me, these charings with the axe and fire.

27 miles W of Dayton. Eldorado [Ohio]. 81 E from Indianapolis. Here it is now glorious sunset, land level, patches of prairie interspersed with patches of very [to be continued.]

[John Milton Binckley (1831-1878).
Father = John Henry Binkcley (1788-1849).
Mother = Charlotte Stocker Binckley (1788-1877).]