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pears to correspond to the Pekono, mentioned in the 

 journey to Wyoming. In the woods we saw a few 

 cabins and only a little ploughed land. The soil of this 

 valley was for the most part gravelly and slaty, with 

 fragments of a reddish sand-stone showing quartz- 

 veins. The Tuscarora, which is pretty high and steep, 

 was of the same sort of rock. There appeared also a 

 reddish quartz, the surface quite covered with little 

 clear-glistening crystals. The mass of the mountain 

 seemed to be partly fine, partly coarse-grained quartz, 

 overlaid with grey sand-stone not so regularly laminated 

 as elsewhere. At the top of the mountain was a tap- 

 house built of wood, where, as commonly in these parts, 

 nothing but bad whiskey is to be had. The Cove-hills 

 were to the left and Path Valley to the right. From 

 the ridge of the Tuscarora to Fort Littleton it is 10 

 miles. We saw several deserted cabins, so they call 

 the smaller block-houses, built of unhewn logs placed 

 one above another. Passed the Burnt Cabins, a region 

 still so called from a few cabins burnt during the war 

 before the last. Arrived at a negative inn. The host 

 answered everything with No; one might ask for 

 whiskey, cyder, milk, food, anything ; he had in return 

 for every question two others to put Where bound? 

 Where from? How far? Frenchmen? Prisoners? 

 Looking for land? Trafficking? &c &c., all which, in 

 retaliation, we answered with No. Three miles 

 further, over gentle hills of sand and clay brought us to 

 Fort Littleton. It is merelv one house that bears 



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this name ; but a considerable extent of land around is 

 cleared of wood, and this of itself gives the place a 

 cheerful aspect. Behind the house are the remains of 

 a fort, set up against the Indians in the war before the 



