NORTH AMERICA. 
fide of the river, about forty miles, in the b ok f 
a creek, five or fix feet below the Tandy iiiraco 3 
to be feen projecting out many feet in length, trunks 
of trees petrified to very hard hone; they lie be- 
tween the upper Tandy (Ira turn and the common 
bed of blackifh vitriolic earth ; rind thefe (lone trees 
are to be feen in the fame fituation, flicking out of 
the perpendicular banks or bluffs of the river in 
this region: there are feveral trunks of large trees 
with their bark, flumps of their limbs and roots, 
lying petrified on the fand hills and Piue fore (Is , 
near the road about this creek, not far from the 
faw-mills. 
Cro fifed Rock-fiih, a large branch of the North 
Weft, near its mouth or confluence, and at even- 
ing arrived at Crofs-Creeks, another very conlider- 
able branch of the river, flowing in through its 
Well banks. This creek gave name to a fine inland 
trading town, on fome heights or fwelling hills* 
from whence the creek defcends precipitately, then 
gently meanders near a mile, through lower level 
lands, to its confluence with the river, affording 
mold convenient mill-feats : thefe profpecls induced 
3&ive enterprifmg men to avail thcmfelves of inch 
advantages pointed out to them by nature 3 they 
built mills, which drew people to the place, and 
thefe obferving eligible fituations for other profitable 
improvements, bought lots and ereCted tenements, 
where they exercifed mechanic arts, as fmiths, wheel- 
wrights, carpenters, coopers, tanners, &c. And at 
length, merchants were encouraged to adventure and 
fettle: in fhort, within eight or ten years from a 
grift-mill, faw-rnill, fmith-fhop and a tavern, arc% 
a fiourifhing commercial town, the feat of govern- 
pnent of the county of Cumberland. The leading 
men 
