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at a difad vantage, for we had made no fhelter 
to keep off the rain, neither could we fee it 
till juft over our heads, and it began to fall. 
One of our Indians cut 4 fticks 5 feet long, 
and ftuck both ends into the ground, at 2 foot 
diftance, one from another; over thefo he fpread 
his match coat and crept through them, and 
then fell to hinging : in the medn time we were 
fetting poles flantwifo in the ground, tying 
others crols them, over which we . fpread our 
blanket and crept dole under it with a fire 
before us and fell faft afleep. 
I waked a little after midnight, and found 
our fire almoft out, fo I got the hatchet and 
felled a few faplings which I laid on, and made 
a roufing fire, tho’ it rained ftoutly, and laying 
down once more, I flept found all night. 
2.1 ft, In the morning when we had dry’d our 
blankets, we kept along the fide of a hill, 
gradually afcending, the foil good, timber 
tall, and abundance of ginfeng ; here the mui- 
quetoes were veryltroublefome, it being foggy, 
thence proceeding down a long gradual defcent 
on good rich foil with tall timber, fugar, ma- 
ple, chefnut, cherry, linden^and elm, we tra- 
veled a large valley and rivulet, then rode up 
a little fteep hill where we flopped at half an 
hour after eleven, this hill was a little fandy, 
with forae large pines growing upon it ; here 
we walked and looked about us, having not 
nad luch an opportunity for two davs, during 
which 
