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came to oak and hickery land, then down * 
keep hill producing white pine to a creek called 
Comma a branch of Tomntohow, where we 
lodged in a bottom producing ginieng, farea- 
parilla mediola, maidenhair, darallia, panax, 
rnitela, chrihophoriana, with white, red and 
blue berries , we had a fine warm night, and 
one of the Indians that had fio generoufly 
feafled ns, fung in a folemn harmonious man- 
ner, for feven or eight minutes, very different 
from the common Indian tune, from whence 
I conjectured it to be a hymn to the great 
fpirit as they exprefs it. In the morning I 
asked the Interpreter what the Indian meant 
by it, but he did not hear him, and indeed I 
believe none of the company heard him but 
myfelf, who wake with a little noife, rarely 
Deeping found abroad. 
The 1 6th, We began our journey up a little 
hill, fteep and fomewhat honey, and then 
through oak, chefnut, huckleberries, and 
honeyfuckl'es, the land poor, fometimes white 
pine, fpruce and lawrel ; thus far N. but at 
half an our after feven N. E. through a great 
white pine, fpruce fwamp full of roots, and 
abundance of old trees lying on the ground, 
or leaning againft live ones, they flood fo 
f thick that we concluded it almoft impoffible 
to fhoot a man at ioo yards diftant, let him 
hand never fo fair. The hraight bodies of 
thefe trees hood fo thick, a bullet muh hit 
one before it could fly ioo yards, in the moll 
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