154 TRAVELS 
bank, Which 1 had marked on my afcent tip ihfc ri- 
ver, where I made fome addition to my collec- 
tions ; and the next day I employed myfelf in the 
fit me manner, putting into fhore frequently, at con* 
venient places, which 1 had noticed - } and in the 
evening arrived again at the upper (lore, where I 
had the pleafure of finding my old friend, the trader, 
in good health and cheerful* and his affairs in a 
profpero’us way. There were alfo a final! party 
of Indians here, who had lately arrived with their 
hunts to purchafe goods. I continued a few days 
at this poll, fearching its environs for curious ve- 
getable productions* collecting feeds and planting 
growing roots in boxes, to be tranfported to the 
lower trading houfe. 
Now, having procured neceffafies to accommo- 
date me on my voyage down to the lower tore, I 
bid adieu to my old friend and benefactor, Mr. Job 
Wiggens, embarked alone on board my little for- 
tunate vefTel, and fet fail. I chofe to follow the 
eaflerilmoft channel of the river to the Great Lake, 
becaufe it ran by high banks and bluffs of the eaffern 
main the greateft part of the diftance, which af- 
forded me an opportunity of obferving a far greater 
variety of natural {objects, than it 1 had taken the 
welder n or middle channel, which flowed through 
-fwamps and mar-flies’. 
Jl 
At evening I arrived at Cedar Point, my former 
fare and pleafant harbour, at the eafl cape of the 
Great Lake, where I had noticed fome curious 
fhrubs and plants ; here 1 refled, and on the fmooth 
and gentle current launch again into the little ocean 
of Lake George, meaning now, on my return, to 
coal! his weftern fhores in fearch of new beauties in 
the bounteous kingdom of Flora. 
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