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though I think Mr. Burton is not so much so. Mr. Burton
has not fixed upon a place for a permanent set-
tlement and therefore, I presume, feels somewhat rest-
less and uneasy. Mrs. Dickens is wonderfully pleased
with the country, and says she wants not to return to
North Carolina upon any terms whatsoever. We stayed
a day and a half with your cousin and then went
on to Jackson where we stopped days. At that
place we found a daughter of your uncle William
Plummer, married to a Mr. Patterson, by whom and
by several other old North Carolinians were
kindly received, and among whom we spent our
time very agreeably. After leaving Jackson we
went down into Hardimann County and visited
Mr. Williams, who married my cousin Susan
Battle. Afterward Lucinda and her husband Mr. Scruggs
had arrived the same day and when aunt and cousin
Susan learnt who I was, they had well then
caressed me as you would have done. Mr. Williams
was very clever and polite and pressed us to remain
several days with them, but we only stayed one day.
Aunt Lucinda is a fine looking hearty and lively
old lady, and although she is upwards of forty years
of age, and weighs nearly two hundred, she rode three
or four days on horseback to visit her daughter. She
started in a jig, the first day she turned it