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River or the outlet of Oneida Lake from S. E. 

 come here together nearly at right angles & form 

 the Oswego Hiver to the North. —Finding com- 

 pany at the tavern, in a man who was going as 

 far as Oswego falls, with a couple cattle, having 

 lately removed to live there; \ undertook to take it 

 through with him, through the distance of 12. miles 

 in such bad road, at so late an hour, was rather 

 more as I should have undertaken without it. 

 After crossing Oneida River or as they call it 

 Onondaga river which I think very wrongly. I 

 found plants of Anona triloba, the first I see a this 

 season ; Crataegus Crus-galli is very frequent 

 here, & varies in the shape of its leaves most 

 wonderfully, according to the more rich & poor 

 or wet & dry soil it grows in ;— I had to drudge 

 on as well as I could since I once had undertaken 

 to go along ; the man who drove the cattle was 

 on horseback, but walked the chiefest part of the 

 way, as it was almost as tedious to write, as it 

 was to walk. — We liked to be overtaken by night, 

 but were luky enough just to clear our distance > 

 when we came to the falls, which are but very 

 small, I had to go a mile farther to come to a 

 tavern at the landing place below the falls, the 

 man who had moved there was in a situation not 

 able to accomodate me ; But though it was dark 

 I had the comfort ot a good road, as all the salt 

 is here carried from the head of the falls, to this 

 landing by carts. At the landing I took up 

 lodging for to night ; being in a manner almost 

 worn down with fatigue. — I collected to day the 

 round leaved variety of Veronica serpyllifolia. 



