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lower than the bank ; a little above this deva- 
luation we dined. 
And now leaving the river we held a new 
courle over a fine level, then down a rich 
hollow to a run, where we law a fummer 
duck ; and fo down the rim , a little beyond 
this turns a path to JViomick , a town on 
the eaft branch, hence N. N. E. then N. after 
W. to a rich bottom near the river, where 
Shickcalamy formerly dwelt, at the upper end 
of which refiftlels torrents had carried abun- 
dance of fand into the woods. With this bot- 
tom we left the river for the prelent, and kept 
a variable courle through the gap of the 
mountain N. and N. W. over middling cham- 
pion land, producing fome pitch pine, and 
large white and black oak, fome fwamps and 
brooks, by one of which we lodged in a 
fertile valley, that we reached before night. 
ii. About break of day it began to rain, 
and the Indians made us a covering of bark 
got after this manner : They cut the tree 
round through the bark near the root, and 
make the like incifion above 7 feet above 
it , thele horizontal ones are joined by a 
perpendicular cut, on each fide of which they 
after loolen the bark from the wood, and 
hewing a pole at the fmall end, gradually ta- 
pering like a wedge about 1 feet, they force 
it in till they have compleated the lepa ra- 
tion all round, and the bark parts whole 
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