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rich : from whence it runs wefhvard near a 
quarter ol a mile, a kind of a landy beach ad- 
joining to the bank of the river, containing 3 
or 4 acres. Here the Indians dig holes, about 
2 foot deep, which foon filling with brine, they 
dip their kettles, and boil the contents, until 
the fait remains at bottom ; there was a fami- 
ly refiding at this time. The boys in the 
lake fifhing, the Squaw fetching water, gather- 
ing wood, and making a fire under the kettle, 
while the husband was basking himlelf on the 
land, under the bufhes. We filled our gallon 
keg full of water and brought it to Town, 
where we boiled it to about a pound of fait. 
Our guides took their arrows, made of reed and 
down to fhoot fmall birds. About half way 
there is an excellent fpring of water, and by it 
a grove of Curboroita’. joining to a green fwamp, 
producing very high grafs. About a mile up 
the river from the lake, it runs by a ftecp bank 
at the end of a high hill. The bank was landy, 
and out of it run’d a brackifh water, which 
inclines me to think that there is a body of 
fofSl fait here abouts, by which the plain is 
fmnifhed with its intenle fait brine, and that 
it is the vapour thereof that congealj to the 
trafh and bufhes that lye on the bank, and 
glitters like flakes of Ice, or Snow, in a Sun- 
fininy day. This day a deputies arrived from 
the Cqyugas Country. 
44 th. Lewis and I hired a guide to go with- 
us 
