from thraldom in the State of Pennsylvania. It was a
peaceful, patient, earnest, yet wise perseverance that led
to so happy a result, and placed upon the statute book its
most luminous pages. May the same wise counsels, paci-
fic and humane spirit, ever continue to plead the cause of
the oppressed, and lead to further triumphs of humanity,
— pacific, bloodless, and glorious !

In the 6th month, 1807, Mary Witchel; a friend from
Bradford, England, and Rachel Price, started on a reli-
gious visit to Friends in Ohio and Virginia. No turnpike
had then been made across the Allegheny Mountains, and
the narrow and steep wagon track, in soft places, was cut
Into deep ruts, and in others was rough and stony. The
women Friends in crossing the mountains were obliged to
dismount from the carriage and walk, or ride alternately
the single riding-horse, on a man's saddle, going at the
rate of two miles an hour. Rachel Price writes, "I
think it is not possible for any one to conceive how bad
the roads are, without seeing them. We are preserved in
good health, and our minds from sinking. My mind when
crossing the mountains was filled with admiration and
praise in beholding the wondrous works of an Almighty
hand." * * "In our preservation we have had often
to exclaim, Surely these are the Lord's doings, and mar-
vellous in our eyes. May a grateful sense thereof rest
on each of our minds, to our own humiliation." " When
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Ohio, the beautiful river on the left, and on the right a
mountain, with rocks overhanging our heads, awfully
majestic to behold. We may say with the poet, —

' These are thy glorious works, Parent of good,

Almighty ! Thine this universal frame,

Thus wondrous fair ; Thyself how wondrous then ;

Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens

To us invisible, or dimly seen

In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare

Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.' "

At New Garden she writes, "We attended Springfield
yesterday. There is a valuable settlement of Friends
here in this wilderness country, whom we feel nearly
united to j and I may tell thee that I fully believe that I
am in my place in coming here. 