1505. The house of Mr. Koons is in Milford, Athens county, Ohio,
twenty-five miles south-west of McConnelsville, forty-two miles from
Lancaster, and sixty-seven miles from Columbus.
1506. Persons going from the West can go to Lancaster, which is the
nearest point by railroad, thence down the Hocking River by stage,
which runs daily to Chauncey, thence on foot two miles to Koons. From
the North persons would take the stage at Columbus, thence to Lancaster
by the lines above described. From the East there are steamboats to
McConnelsville, on the Muskingum, both from Zanesville and Marietta,
but from these private carriages must be got; distance as above,
twenty-five miles, but the miles bear no correspondence to the hours,
for on every route they think they do well if they accomplish two and
a half miles an hour. No man ever travelled over so hilly a country
anywhere else, and when you finally get into Koons’s vicinity, you find
the essence of hills personified; there is no such thing as a level
spot large enough to put a house on.