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geree Indians. We gave him a stroud water blew 

 to mak^ his wife an Indian petticoat, who went 

 with her husband. After two hours refreshment 

 we went on, and got that day about twenty miles. 

 "We lay by a small, swift run of water, which 

 was paved at the bottom with a sort of stone much 

 like to tripoli, and so light that I fancied it would 

 precipitate in no stream but where it naturally 

 grew. The weather was very cold, the winds hold- 

 ing northerly. "We made ourselves as merry as 

 we could, having a good supper with the scraps of 

 venison we had given us by the Indians, having 

 killed three teal and a possum, which medly, alto- 

 gether, made a curious ragoo. 



This day all of us had a mind to have rested, 

 but the Indian was much against it, alleging that 

 the place we lay at was not good to hunt in, tell- 

 ing us if we would go on, by noon he would bring 

 us to a more convenient place, ^ so we moved for- 

 wards, and about twelve o'clock came to the most 

 amazing prospect I had seen since I had been in 

 Carolina. We traveled by a swamp-side which 

 swamp I believe to be no less than twenty miles 

 over, the other side being as far as I could well 

 discern, there appearing great ridges of mountains 

 bearing from us ~N. ~N. "W. One Alp with a top like 

 a sugar loaf, advanced its head above all the rest 

 very considerably. The day was very serene which 

 gave us the advantage of seeing a long way ; these 

 mountains were clothed all over with trees which 

 seemed to us to be very large timbers. 



