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bat fubtil anfwers ; then they gave us a firings 
withal, telling us, that now they had thrown 
water on our fire, and we were at liberty to 
return home when we pleafed, they all took 
their leave, and bid us adieu by ftiaking hands 
very kindly, and ieemingly with much affec- 
tion. This night the young men getting into 
liquor, kept fhouting and finging till morn- 
ing. 
3^/, We prepared for letting forward, and 
many of the chiefs came once more to take 
their’ farewell } forne of them brought us pro- 
vifibn for our journey, we Ihook hands again 
and fet out at 9. 
It was greatly to my mortification^ that I 
was forced to return for the moft part the 
fame way I came. Wc had intended to go 
through the Mohawks country to Albany , but 
our 2 Indians could not be perfuaded to go that 
way, tho' wc offered to bear their chaiges, 
and the chiefs were not willing we Ihould leave 
them' to pais through the wilderneis alone, 
as they came to gratify us and further our 
bufmefs. This day was fair, and the wind b. 
In the afternoon, we alcended that lovely 
mountain S. W. which divides the waters that 
render tribute to the great ftreams of St- 
rence and Sufquehanah. We did not directly 
crofs the mountain, but rode a fmall way on 
its fummit under the grateful fhade of thole 
lofty trees that every way adorn it, ^and 
