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county) I gave a discourse, after Brother Snethen, on 

 1 Sam. xii. 23. 



Monday, 24. Came to Ledbetter's. 



Friday, November 14, 1800. We took our leave of 

 the French Broad; the lands flat and good, but rather 

 cold. This river rises in the south-west, and winds 

 along in many meanders fifty miles north-east, receiv- 

 ing a number of tributary streams in its course; it 

 then inclines westward, passing through Buncombe, in 

 North Carolina, and Green and Dandridge counties, 

 in Tennessee, in which last it is augmented by the 

 waters of Nolachucky; four miles above Knoxville it 

 forms a junction with the Holston, and their united 

 waters flow along under the name of Tennessee, giv- 

 ing name to the State. We had no small labor in 

 getting down Saluda Mountain. Arriving at Father 

 Douthet's, on the south branch of Saluda, I found 

 myself quite at home. On the 16th of September we 

 set out from Botetourt, in Virginia, and on the 14th 

 of November we were at the foot of the grand mount- 

 ain division of South Carolina. 



Sunday, 16. Brother Whatcoat preached at Father 

 John Douthet's on Matt. iii. 10; the next day I gave 

 a sermon founded on Psalm cxlvi. 8, 9. 



Tuesday, 18. Came fifteen miles to Sam'l Burdine's, 

 in Pendleton county. Brother Whatcoat preached ; we 

 administered the Lord's supper. Sister Burdine pro- 

 fesses to have known the Lord twenty years; in her 

 you see meekness, gentleness, patience, pure love — 

 and cleanliness. 



Wednesday, 19. Preached at John Wilson's on 

 Acts ii. 17, 18. Benjamin Blanton met me; he is now 

 a married man, and talks of locating. 



Thursday, 20. Brother Whatcoat discoursed at the 



