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at a disadvantage, for we had made no fhelter 
to keep off the rain, neither could we fee it 
till juft over our heads, and it began to fall. 
One of our Indians cut 4 fticks 5 feet long, 
and Stuck both ends into the ground, at 2 foot 
diftance, one from another ; over thefe he fpread 
his match coat and crept through them, and 
then fell to finging : in the mean time we were 
Setting poles flantwife in the ground, tying 
others crofs them, over which we fpread our 
blanket and crept clofe under it with a fire 
before us and fell faft afleep. 
I waked a little after midnight, and found 
our fire almoft out, fo I got the hatchet and 
felled a few faplings which I laid on, and made 
a roufing fire, tho’ it rained Stoutly, and laying 
down once more, I fiept found all night. 
2 ift, In the morning when we had dry’d our 
blankets, we kept along the fide of a hill, 
gradually afcending, the foil good, timber 
tall, and abundance of ginfeng ; here the muf- 
quetoes were very troublefome, it being foggy, 
thence proceeding down a long gradual defcent 
on good rich foil with tall timber, fugar ma- 
ple, chefnut, cherry, linden and elm, we tra- 
verfed a large valley and rivulet, then rode up 
a little fteep hill where we stopped at half an 
hour after eleven, this hill was a little fandy, 
with fome large pines growing upon it; here 
we walked and looked about us, having not 
had fuch an opportunity for two days, during 
which 
