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beech, afti, fpruce, linden, elm and herb 
hierophilon, hepatica and maidenhair in abun- 
dance. We lodged by Front Creek in a fpa- 
tious vale, and it looking like rain, we made 
us a cabbin of lpruce bark, but no rain 
came. 
i p. We rode over good level land : after 
we came to very fwampy bottoms, thickets 
and hills of fpruce, and white pine ; here 
were three ridges of fteep hills that run nearly 
E. and W „ and with difficulty we rode over 
their fteep cliffs, which projected clofe to the 
creek. We were feveral times obliged to 
ford it backwards and forwards. Several runs 
come into the creek on both ftdes from be- 
tween the mountains, Now we came to moft 
excellent level ground, than which nothing 
can be more fruitful, full of tall timber, fugar, 
maple, birch, linden, afti, and beech, and 
fhrubs, as opulus, green maple, hornbeam, 
hama m elis, folanum, goofterries and red cur- 
tans triphilum in abundance. Here we dined 
by a pleafant creek and choice land. Alter 
dinner we foon began to mount up a pretty 
fteep hill, covered with oak, birch, afti, and 
higher up abundance of chefnut and lome 
hickery. This is middling land, the produce 
the fame for three miles as our land bears 
with us. It lies very high, and when cleared 
will have an extenftve profpect of fertile 
vales on all ftdes. We then rede down a long 
F a rich 
