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but in the morning I found him and his com* 
punion, to my great joy, foft afleep by the 
Outfide of the cabin. 
a yth. We fet out early and found our 
canoe fafe where we left it, and it was with 
much fatisfadion that I entered it. At half 
an hour after ten, we got to the firft fall, above 
the great one, the Indians brought the canoe to 
fhore and made lign for us to difembarfc and 
wa Ik along afhore, while they flept into the 
fiver, and bawled the canoe up the foil about 
a quarter of a mile, by good land. We reim- 
barked again, and at twelve came to the Onei- 
do* branch, up which the Albany traders re- 
turn, after a or 3 months trade at Ofwego- 
Caftle At 3 o’clock we entered the Onondaga 
lake, the upper end of which we gained by hve, 
the land about the lake is pretty good and fome 
large marlhes and rich low ground moftly on 
each fide, but here and there the hills come 
dole to the water: I think it mull be eight 
miles long and above one broad, very brackilh 
at the fait plain; very deep in fome planes 
hear the middle, but fllallow lor 100 yards 
from the fhore. The Indians paddled the ca- 
noe a little way higher up the ftrearn and might 
have brought us to the town, if the fallen 
trees had been removed ; but whatever nature 
has done for them ( and file is no where more 
bountiful ) they are too lazy by any trou- 
ble of their own to improve; but when com- 
pelled by the molt urgent necelHtv, We 
