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head of the Tionesta, I thought the pine timber was 

 better than in any other part of the region I have 

 mentioned. The timber region commenced about 

 seven miles from the Allegany river, two miles 

 above Warren. The southeast branch heads in a 

 good farming country, covered with beech, maple, 

 chestnut, and some scattering wild-cherry trees, 

 some of which latter measured three feet in diame- 

 ter, and not a branch within fifty feet of the ground. 

 Here were also white-wood trees, four feet in diame- 

 ter, with the lower limbs sixty feet from the ground. 

 The country around the mouth of the creek was 

 covered with a magnificent growth of pine and oak. 

 Hence to the head of Willow Creek is a good farming 

 country, covered with oak, chestnut, beech, maple, 

 and a sprinkling of pine, hemlock and wild cherry. 

 Around the head of Tuneangwant creek and on the 

 south side is also a good farming country. I never 

 hunted on the north side, but have been told that it 

 is as good a country for farming purposes as the south 

 side. From the Quaker Run to the head of Tune- 

 angwant, thence to Sugar Eun, Kenzua Creek, and 

 on to the Tionesta, I have been familiar, and know 

 it to be good farming land. On the north branch 

 of the Kenzua I have seen indications of stone-coal 

 and have no doubt there are large deposits of it in 

 that vicinity, as well as around the head of Willow 

 Creek. Six miles from the mouth of Kenzua Creek, 

 on the north side, is good land for cultivation. Also, 

 up Sugar Run, about the same distance from the 

 Allegany, is a fine tract of land. East from the 



