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unknown in the County. 

Letters directeded to any person residing in Clarke Co. have to be entrusted to the clerk of some river boat, if the boat stops at this landing, which it rarely does on its way down the river, the letters are perhaps sent on shore, they are then kept at a store house on the bank, until the advent of the first stray traveller from the interior, when they are placed at his disposal to be by him, delivered, opened, or lost, according as his honesty, inquisitiveness or carelessness may predominate, I was informed that not one third of the letters sent here ever reached their proper destination. 

Such are the postal arrangements in Clarke Co. Ala on which comment is needless.     

No public means of transportation exists in this County, travelling except on horseback is unknown, or almost so, tradition relates that there were stages here before the war, but all vestiges of them have now disappeared. I found it would be very difficult to procure a horse in Gainestown, but I was informed that would be an impossibility for me to obtain one up the country. As I had no means then of leaving this place, I awaited the return of Mr. Jack Wilson, meanwhile I held conversations with some [[strikethrough]] of [[/strikethrough]] gentlemen residing in the neighborhood