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ber, though not completely adequate to my 
wants, was at leaft fufficient to enable me to 
continue my journey ; and allowed me time 
to wait a more favourable opportunity, whea 
I might make my final purchafe to more ad- 
vantage. Accordingly, without remaining a 
moment longer In this frozen climate, I took 
leave of my venerable hoft, and regained my 
camp, colledling as I went the cattle I had 
purchafed at the two preceding plantations. 
The cold had ftiU increafed, for in feveral 
places I found ice two inches thick. Befides, 
the fnow ceafed not to fall the whole time we 
were in the mountains ; and, though I ex- 
pected to fuffer extremely on the road, yet the 
certainty of foon finding the air milder in the 
plain, and more efpecially the pleafure of 
being freed at laft from the anxiety I had 
fo long fufFered, had fuch a powerful cffedl on 
my mind, that I was fcarcely fenfible to the 
inclemency of the feafon. 
I did not fee the fun again till my arrival 
in the valley watered by the Green-Riven 
There, animated by the view of that beneficent 
orb, and warmed by its beams, I was pro- 
ceeding gaily under its falutary influence, when 
we 
