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Pompey having the highest land in this nigh- 

 borhood I concluded to visit it, as I had nothing 

 else to do ; accordingly T set out, & arrived there 

 about noon : the rise which the road makes, after 

 leaving the main turnpike is indeed astonishing 

 before reaching the highest part of it, I had a 

 view of Onondaga & Oneida lake ; the whole of 

 the hill is under cultivation, consequently not 

 very well answering my persuits. When I ar- 

 rived at the town every thing was in a bustle 

 about the militia parade, for to draft the number 

 required, towards the X. Y. militia as required 

 by proclamation — I spent the afternoon in look- 

 ing at their proceedings : nothing new this day. 

 A Sonchus common almost every where grew 

 here to the astonishing hight of 10. feet & more. 

 The ground generally is exceeding rich & the 

 timber to the highest top of the hill is beach & 

 maple. — Very handsome formed trees of Cratae- 

 gus Crus-galli. I observed very frequent. — Ur- 

 tica procera — Helianthus squarrosus— Rudbeckia 

 laciniata — Circaea alpina, &e. 



Augt. 13. Having been informed about a very 

 high fall of water at Pratts Mills, I went to see 

 it ; it is about 3 m. from the place I stood at over 

 night, I crossed several high lands, interrupted 

 by valleys & came to the little stream which 

 forms those falls : when T came to it, I could not 

 perceive where it could have so powerfull a fall, as 

 it was told me, as the ground seemed to go very 

 gently downwards as far as the eye could reach, 

 <fe bordered at the East & West or rather hemd in 



