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geree Indians. We gave him a stroud water blew 

 to makj 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 suj)per 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". ]^. 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. 



