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fteepnefs, and the violence of the fall. We 

 were accordingly obliged to leave our canoe 

 here, and to carry our baggage through 

 unfrequented woods to Fort Anne, on. 

 the river Woodcreck, which is a fpace from 

 forty-three to fifty Eng/ffi miles, during 

 which we were quite fpent, through the 

 excefs of heat. Sometimes we had no other 

 way of eroding deep rivers, than by cutting 

 down tall trees, which flood on their banks, 

 and throwing them acrofs the water. All 

 the land we paifed over this afternoon was 

 almoft level, without hills and ftones, and 

 entirely covered with a tall and thick foreft, 

 in which we continually met with trees 

 which were fallen down, becaufe noonemade 

 the lead ufe of the woods. We palled the 

 next night in the midft of the foreft, 

 plagued with mufkitoes, gnats, and wood- 

 lice, and in fear of all. kinds of fnakes. 



June the 2( th. Early this morning we 

 continued our journey through the wood, 

 along the river Hudfon. There was an old 

 path leading to Fort Nichdfon, but it was 

 fo overgrown with grafs, that we difcovered 

 it with great difficulty. In fome places we 

 found plenty of rajfberries, fome of which 

 were already ripe. 



Fort Nicholfon is the place on the eaf- 



tcrn more of the river Hud/on, where a 



T 3 wooden 



