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near a mile to the town-houfe, bearing N. this 
town is called Tohicon , and lies in a rich neefc 
between the branch and main river: the Indians 
welcomed us by beating their drum, as loon as 
they faw us over the branch, and continued 
beating after the Englijb manner as we rode to 
the houfe, and while we unfaddled our Horfos, 
laid in our luggage and entered our felves : the 
Houle is about 30 foot long, and the fined 
or any I law among them. The Indians cut 
long grals and laid it on the floor for us to fit 
or lie on ; leveral of them came and lat down 
and linoaked their pipes, one of which was 
fix foot long, the head of done, the flem a 
reed , after this they brought victuals in the 
ufual manner : here I oblerved for the firfi 
time in this journey, that the worms which 
had done much mifohiefin leveral parts of our 
Province, by deflroying the grals and even 
corn for two fummers, had done the lame thing 
here, and had eat off the blade of their maize 
and long white grals, fo that the Aems of both 
flood naked 4 foot high ; I faw dome of the 
naked dark coloured grubs half an inch long, 
tho’ moft of them were gone, yet I could 
perceive they were the fame that had vifited 
us two months before ; they clear all the grals 
in their way, in any meadow they get into, 
and feem to be periodical as the locufls and 
caterpillar, the latter of which I am afraid 
will do us a great deal of milchief next dim- 
mer. Here one of our hofts at the hunting 
cabin 
