HORTH AMERICA* 
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CHAP. III. 
I waited two or three days at this poll, expelling 
the return of an Indian who was out hunting. This 
man was recommended to me as a fuitable perfon 
for a protestor and guide to the Indian fettlements 
.over the hills 5 but upon information that he would 
not be in fhortly, and there being no other perfon 
fuitable for the purpofe, rather than be detained, 
and perhaps thereby fruftrated in my purpofes, I 
determined to let off alone and run all riiks. 
I croffed the river at a good ford juft below the 
old fort. The river here is juft one hundred yards 
over. After an agreeable progrefs for about two 
miles over delightful ftrawberry plains, and gently 
dwelling green hills, I began to afeend more fteep 
and rocky ridges. Having gained a very con- 
liderabie elevation, locking round, I enjoyed a 
very compreheniive and delightful view : Keowe* 
which I had but juft left fight off, appeared again, 
and the ierpentine river fpeeding through the lucid 
green plain apparently juft under my feet. After 
oblerving this delightful landfcape, I continued on 
again three or four miles, keeping the trading path, 
which led me oyer uneven rocky land, eroding rivu- 
lets and brooks, and rapidly defcending over rocky 
precipices ; when I came into a charming vale, em- 
Jheiiiihed with a delightful glittering river, which 
meandered through it, and crofted my road. On my 
left hand, upon the grafty bafes of the rifmg hills, 
appeared the remains of a town of the ancients, as 
the 
