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fide the currents and creeks are chiefly formed 
by the water oufing and draining from the 
bottoms of the mountains and hills, and are 
gradually collected in this manner into rivu- 
lets But on the louth of this great ridge, it 
gulhes out between the rocks in ftreams 
big enough to turn a mill, in other places 
rifing and bubbling out of the earth in quan- 
tity iufficient to fill a pipe an inch fquare, or 
thereabouts. 
Our journey now lay through very rich 
bottoms to a creek 6 miles from Shamokin , a 
great extent of fruitful low ground Bill con- 
tinuing. Here we found a fine meadow of 
grals on our fight, and rich dry ground on 
the left. In our path lay a large Rattle- 
fnake, but he civilly crept into the grals, and 
let us pals by without danger. Our way from 
hence lay through an old Indian field of ex- 
cellent foil, where there had been a town, the 
principal foot Reps of which are peach-trees, 
plumbs and excellent grapes. A great flood 
came down this branch a few years paft, and 
drove abundance of land over this ground a 
great depth among the trees. It role 20 feet 
perpendicular, wafhing away many yards of 
the bank, which was compofed of gravel and 
land, and doubtlefs had been railed to that 
heig’nth by former inundations, for the wood 
ground 30 rod from the river is leveral feet 
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