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fine bladed grass six feet high, along the banks of 

 these pleasant rivulets. We passed by the sepul- 

 chres of several slain Indians. Coming that day 

 about thirty miles, we reached the fertile and 

 pleasant banks of Sapona river, whereon stands 

 the Indian town and fort ; nor could all Europe 

 afford a pleasanter stream, were it inhabited by 

 christians and cultivated by ingenious hands. 

 These Indians live in a clear field about a mile 

 square, which they would have sold me ; because 

 I talked sometimes of coming into those parts to 

 live. This most pleasant river may be something 

 broader than the Thames at Kingston, keeping a 

 continual pleasant warbling noise, with its rever- 

 berating on the bright marble rocks. It is beau- 

 tified with a numerous train of swans and other 

 sorts of water fowl, not common though extraor- 

 dinary pleasing to the eye. 



The forward spring welcomed us with her in- 

 numerable train of small choristers which inhabit 

 those fair banks ; the hills redoubling and adding 

 sweetness to their melodious tunes by their shrill 

 echoes. 



One side of the river is hemmed in with moun- 

 tainy ground, the other side proving as rich a soil 

 to the eye of a knowing person with us, as any 

 this western world can aftbrd. 



We took up our quarters at the king's cabin 

 who was a good friend to the English, and had 

 lost one of his eyes, in their vindication, being 

 upon his march towards the Appalatche mouu- 

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