The traveler at the beginning of the century noticed a change in
the temper of the people as well as a change in the soil when the
Bonnyclabber Country was reached. The time-serving attitude of
the good people of the East now gave place to a "consciousness of
independence" due, Baily remarks, to the fact that each man was
self-sufficient and passed his life "without regard to the smiles
and frowns of men in power." This spirit was handsomely
illustrated in the case of one burly Westerner who was "churched"
for fighting. Showing a surly attitude to the deacon-judges who
sat on his case, he was threatened with civil prosecution and
imprisonment. "I don't want freedom," he is said to have replied,
bitterly; "I don't even want to live if I can't knock down a man
who calls me a liar."

Pushing on westward by way of historic Sideling Hill and Bedford
to Statlers, Baily found here a prosperous millstone quarry,
which sold its stones at from fifteen to thirty dollars a pair.
Twelve years earlier Washington had prophesied that the
Alleghanies would soon be furnishing millstones equal to the best
English burr. As he crossed the mountains Baily found that
taverns charged the following schedule: breakfast, eighteen
pence; dinner and supper from two shillings to two shillings and
sixpence each. Traversing Laurel Hill, he reached Pittsburgh just
at the time when it was awakening to activity as the trading
center of the West.

In order to descend the Ohio, Baily obtained a flatboat,
thirty-six feet long and twelve feet broad, which drew eighteen
inches of water and was of ten tons burden. On the way