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very fine, yet nobody makes ufe of it. We 

 found it very difficult to get over fuch trees, 

 becaufe they had flopped up almoft all the 

 paflages, and clofe to them was the chief 

 refidence of rattle-fnakes, during the in- 

 tenfenefs of the heat. 



ABOUT two o'clock this afternoon we 

 arrived at Fort Anne. It lies upon the 

 river Woodcreek, which is here at its origin 

 no bigger than a little brook. We flayed 

 here all this day, and next, in order to 

 make a new boat of bark, becaufe there 

 was no poffibility to go down the river to 

 Fort St. Frederic, without it. We arrived 

 in time, for one of our guides fell ill this 

 morning, and could not have gone any fur- 

 ther with his burthen. If he had been 

 worfe, we fhould have been obliged to ftop 

 on his account, which would have put us 

 under great difficulties, as our provifions 

 would foon have been exhaufted, and from 

 the defart place where we were, we could 

 not have arrived at any inhabited place in. 

 lefs than three or four days. Happily we 

 reached the wifh'd-for place, and the fick 

 tnan had time to reft and recover. 



ABOUT Fort Anne we found a number 

 of mice, of the common kind. They were 

 probably the offspring of thofe which were 

 Brought to .the fort in the foldier's provi- 



