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to flay our ftomachs, and loon after a large 
kettle full of fmall honiony boil’d in ftrong 
venilon broth • this was noble entertainment, 
and too good to leave any of. I heartily 
pityed the poor Squaw, for I believe fhe had 
drelfed it tor herfelf and levcral children : ihe 
alfo obliged us to accept of a fine piece ol 
venifon to carry away. Here we killed a rat- 
tle fnake, the lecond we had teen to day : at 
one we continued our journey through groves of 
pine of a ftupendous ftature ; the land mid- 
ling for 2 miles S. W. to the river, then a 
variable courfe over land of equal goodnefs, 
oak and hickery, fome bottoms rich j and by 
three we crois’d a fine creek, where we fpyed 
a grey fquirrel which our Indian would have 
thor, had it not been on the top of a white 
oak : here we found very ttony ground, great 
Hones having been drove by one common 
force, into a form like that of fith feales, 
yet this was a mile from the river, and many 
yards perpendicular above the bed of it, this 
may be the effects of the univerlal deluge, or 
l’ome mighty torrent of water fince that, muft 
have flowed over thefe {tones and walhed them 
thus bare. We travelled till about two hours 
by the fun, and then pitched by the river, 
which run full W. there was high barren 
mountains on the upper fide, here the river 
was deep and finooth enough for flat bottom’d 
veflels, which made us heartily wilh that we 
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