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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 251
field and traveled some thirty miles before 1 could find a road leading
from Cleveland AvestAvard along the lake shore. Where Elyria noAV
stands, there being no bridge, I crossed the river on the ice of one or
tAvo nights freezing, and found it six inches thick. After crossing Black
River on the Ridge road 1 found a Methodist family named Smith, whose
house Avas one of my teaching places. My circuit extended from Black
River along the Ridge road by Avhere NonA'alk noAV stands, Avhich Avas
laid out in the spring of 1818, to the little tOAvn of New Haven, and
thence by a zig-zag course to Sandusky Bay, Venice and Portland, IIOAV
Sandusky City, thence through Perkins east along the lake shore to the
place of beginning. I soon found a four weeks circuit of twenty-four
appointments with tAvo hundred miles of travel to accomplish it. 1
preached the first sermon ever preached in many places, and especially
Sandusky City, then containing half a dozen houses.