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open part. At half an hour after nine, we rode 
down a fmall hill, and crofted a fmall run^ 
then climb’d a fteep hill of oak land, and by 
ten to a large creek called Uskoho , then round 
the point of a hill, midling land, and up 
the fide thereof which was good, and 
down the other fide very fteep to a Run, 
with good corn land to the top of a hill in 
fight of the eaft branch of Sufquehanah , fo far 
we had pale clay land from the vvildernels, 
though blackifh on the furface, for 2, 3 or 4 
inches, then down half a mile on a moderate 
defeent, good oak and hickery land to a large 
rich grafty and weedy bottom, 40 rood wide, 
producing elm:, birch, linden, lotus, white- 
walnut, and very large white pine, where the 
land is a little higher than common ; at the 
upper end of this bottom we dined at half an 
hour after 12, we let out again at 3, courfeN. 
along a fteep hill fide, full of excellent flat 
whet-ftones of all fixes, from half a foot, to 4 
feet long, and from 2 inches to a foot wide, 
and from half an inch to a foot thick ; I brought 
one home which I have ufed to whet my ax, 
feythe, chizzels and knife, and is yet very little 
the vvorfe for wear, it is as fine as the Engl'jb 
rag, but of a blackifh colour : this lafted two 
miles clofe to the river which is here 100 yards 
wide, and deep enough for flat-bottomed boats, 
then we came to a very rich low land, moft of 
the way N. N. E. to the Cayuga branch, near 
100 yards wide which wc crofted, then rode 
near 
