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were in a canoe, and our horfes at Shamokin, 
for we dreaded the difmal wildernels between. 
We obferved here an old log, which the 
bears had cunningly turned to pick up the 
fnails, beetles, and grubbs, that had crept under 
it for fhelter. 
7 th. We rod over middling land, producing 
oak, pine, and great magnolia, to the Tohicon 
town on the Cayugo branch • this place we ar- 
rived at by noon but flayed there all night, 
lrighted by feveral fhowers that paffed over the 
mountains in fight : indeed it rained a little 
here, I walked to the branch after dinner, 
and found abundance of foffils on the banks, 
but the diftance of the way, and heavy load 
of our baggage, were an inlurmountable bar 
to my bringing any home. This day the 
yliltkoque interpreter that travelled with us from 
Onondaga , who left the path a little to hunt, 
misd our trad! and hit upon an Indian town, 
3 miles up the branch, and there picking up a 
Squaw brought her with him. The chief 
man of the town came to vifit us in a very 
friendly manner, and our interpreter telling 
him where we had been, what about, and how 
well we had fucceeded ; he teftified abundance 
of fotisfadlion that peace was not like to be 
interrupted, he added, when he came home 
his people told him, we had paffed through 
their town, but that we had not informed 
them of our bufinefs. 
This 
