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two children on the seat before us, and our 

 charioteer in front. We had blankets and 

 cloaks to roll about our feet, and a basket of 

 cold meat and bread. Another sleigh carried our 

 bedding, trunks, and luggage, besides baskets of 

 poultry and our two dogs. 



" We travelled twenty miles that day very 

 pleasantly ; passing through miles and miles of 

 forest. I was delighted with this new scene. 

 Every now and then, we came to small clearings, 

 with loghouses, and generally with a good stock 

 of cattle and poultry. 



** At four o'clock, we reached the inn ; and we 

 passed the night there very comfortably, sleep- 

 ing on the floor in the sitting-room, where we 

 spread our mattresses and blankets. 



" Next day, our road lay through thick woods ; 

 indeed, it scarcely deserved that name, for it was 

 merely a track through the snow where other 

 sleighs had lately passed. We turned backwards 

 and forwards through the crowded trees, and 

 often had showers of snow from branches which 

 our heads touched : the boughs of the beautiful 

 hemlock pine were so loaded with it, and bent 

 down so low, that we were obliged to lie down, 

 to pass under them; and twice we were obliged 

 to stop and cut a passage where trees had fallen 

 across the way. We drove tor nine miles 

 through woods without seeing any habitation > 

 except two Indian huts. 



