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ville R.R. one mile north of the Harding pike as a suitable place for a Freedman's school. I found assembled here some 30 or 40 Blacks, from 12 to 25 years of age, chiefly females, with out any visible means of support, who say that they will come to Nashville for the purpose of being educated I urged them to seek employment where they are, and encouraged them to do so by promising that we would soon be able to open a school in their midst. There can be a school of some 60 scholars opened at this place. I could find no one who could give me any positive information on the subject, but there are several houses at this place which the natives call Gov-ment houses, and I suppose they were built by the Govt. One of these might be used as a school room, but the teacher as before would have to board with the colored people.

My next stopping place was at the village of Tank, where seeing quite a number of Freedmen I "called a halt," to have a talk with them, but they all hailed from Cheatham, and reported a very flurishing state of affairs in that county. On leaving Tank I crossed a range of young Mountains, and entered the valley of South Harpeth - which is indeed a lovely place wherein is found much of that which constitutes rural happiness - but it is no field for our work as may be infered from the remarks of a "Fine old Southern gentleman" with whom I confered on the subject. "Sah" said he with characteristic pomposity and refreshing brogue: "Sah thah is'n't 50 niggahs in