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fteepnefs,and the violence of the fall. We 

 were accordingly obliged to leave our canoe 

 here, and to carry our baggage through 

 unfrequented woods to Fort Anne, on 

 the river Woodcreek, which is a fpace from, 

 forty-three to fifty Englijh miles, during 

 which we were quite fpent, through the 

 cxcefs of heat. Sometimes we had no other 

 way of crofting deep rivers, than by cutting 

 down tall trees, which flood on their banks, 

 and throwing them acrofs the water. All 

 the land we paffed over this afternoon was 

 almoft level, without hills and ftones, and 

 entirely covered with a tall and thick foreft, 

 in which we continually met- with trees 

 which were fallen down, becaufe no one made 

 the leaft ufe of the woods. We pafled the 

 next night in the midft of the foreft, 

 plagued with mufkitoes, gnats, and wood- 

 lice, and in fear of all kinds of makes. 



June the 26th. EARLY this morning we 

 continued our journey through the wood, 

 along the river Hudfon. There was an old 

 path leading to Fort Nicbolfon, but it was 

 fo overgrown with grafs, that we difcovered 

 it with great difficulty. In fome places we 

 found plenty of rafpberriesy fome of which 

 were already ripe. 



FORT Nicholfon is the place on the eaf- 



tcrn flipre of the river Hudfon, where a 



T 3 wooden 



