6 ½ hours all to my special benefit till I can make connections for Buffalo. Dec 30th . After waiting the specified 6 ½ hours I find they have made and addition of 2 hours more to enjoy myself, that is what I call being too liberal. Well having put the 8 ½ hours to as good use as I know how I now board a Lake Shore and Michigan Southern train for Buffalo. After leaving my resting place Ashtabula I passed over the same bridge wher or rather the same spot where P P Bliss was killed some years ago by the bridge giving way and letting the train he was on through onto the ice below.

After traveling again for awhile we come in sight of the famous Lake Erie it was frozen over except within a few yards from the shore, the surrounding country is very flat and in some parts, it very much resembles the accounts we have of the West, you can see a small village all frame buildings and no fences, and scattered here and there as in an open field, You can look a way off and see a sleigh appearing to be crossing the fields but when you get closer you can see the beaten road, and what few trees there are, are all around the houses, generally orchards

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