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ftones either on the ground, or on the 

 fofter fhore ; and both fides of the river 

 when they were not hilly, were covered 

 with tall elms, American lime-trees, fugar- 

 maples, beeches, hiccory-trees, fome water- 

 beeches, and white walnut-trees. 



On our left we faw an old fortification of 

 ftones laid above one another ; but nobody 

 could tell me whether the Tndians or the 

 Europeans had built it. 



We had rowed very fail all the afternoon, 

 in order to get forward ; and we thought that 

 we were upon the true road, but found our- 

 ielves greatly miftaken : for towards night 

 we obferved, that the reeds in the river bent 

 towards us, which was a mark that the river 

 likewife flowed towards us -, whereas, if 

 we had been on the true river, it mould 

 have gone with us. We likewife obferved, 

 from the trees which lay acrofs the river, 

 that nobody had lately pafied that way, 

 though we mould have {ten the fteps of the 

 Frenchmen in the grafs along the more, when 

 they brought their boat over thefe trees. 

 At laft, we plainly faw that the river flowed 

 again ft us, by feveral pieces of wood which 

 floated flowly towards us ; and we were con- 

 vinced, that we had gone twelve Englifh 

 miles, and upwards, upon a wrong river, 

 which obliged us to return, and to row till 



very 



