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very Madly ; his houfe is about fix miles from 
the blue Mountains. 
The 6 th, we let forward and afeended the 
firffc Blue ridge, from the top of which we 
made an obfervation, Conrad H eifers Hill bear- 
ing fouth ao degrees eaft, the northern prol- 
pect to two gaps, thro’ which we were to pals 
to the North Hill, N. 50 deg. W about 10 
miles diftant. The top and fouth fide of this 
ridge is midling land, half a quarter of a 
mile broad, and produced lome wild grals, 
abundance of fern, oak and chelnut trees. 
Delcending the North fide we found it more 
poor, fteep and ftony, and came foon to the 
filft branch of Ssvataro which runs between 
the ridges, and is 3 miles from the next branch, 
all very poor land ; but on this fecond branch 
it is good low land, with large trees of 5 
leaved white pine, poplar, and white oak, 
here we dined by a fpruce lwamp. 
After dinner we patTed the openings of two 
ridges, the laft of which was by the bank of 
the principal branch of Swataro , the foil poor 
and Honey; then we afeended a great ridge 
about a mile fteep, and terribly ftoncy moft 
of the way : near the top is a fine tho’ fniall 
Tpring of good water. At this place we were 
warned by a well known alarm to keep our 
diftance from an enraged rattle fnake that 
had put himfelf into a coiled pofiure of de- 
fence, within a dozen yards of our path, but 
C a we 
