At daybreak on 22 September, we found ourselves in the hamlet of Mexico, where we only changed horses or watered them. This region is wild, and we already note that we are approaching the Allegheny Mountains. The inn is rather good; the individual houses mark the beginning of a street. To the left there is a wooded valley, beyond which rises a long, high forest wall that forms the southwestern bank of the Juniata.
Bodmer's unfinished sketch of the prison at Pittsburgh, made during his brief stay in that city in September, 1832, furnished the basis for the aquatint designated as Vignette VI in the atlas that later accompanied the publication of Prince Maximilian's travels.
With stopovers at Huntington and Ebensburg, where they stayed several days waiting for Bodmer and Saynisch to catch up with them, Maximilian and Dreidoppel reached Pittsburgh around midnight on September 26. Securing accommodations at the Exchange Hotel, they were soon joined there by Bodmer and Saynisch.
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