rich : from whence it runs weftward near a 
quarter of a mile, a kind of a fand beach ad- 
joining to the bank of the river, containing 3 
or 4 acres. Here the Indians dig holes, about 
2 feet deep, which foon filling with brine, they 
dip their kettles, and boil the contents, until 
the fait remains at bottom ; there was a fami- 
ly refiding at this time. The boys in the 
lake fifhing, the Squaw fetching water, gather- 
ing wood, and making a fire under the kettle, 
while the husband was basking himfelf on the 
fand, under the bufhes. We filled our gallon 
keg full of water and brought it to Town, 
where we boiled it to about a pound of fait. 
Our guides took their arrows, made of reed and 
down to fhoot fmall birds. About half way 
there was an excellent fpring of water, and by it 
a grove of Curboroitoe j oining to a green fwamp, 
producing very high grafs. About a mile up 
the river from the lake, it runs by a fteep bank 
at the end of a high hill. The bank was fandy, 
and out of it run’d a brackifh water, which 
inclines me to think that there is a body of 
foffil fait here abouts, by which the plain is 
furnifhed with its intenfe fait brine, and that 
it is the vapour thereof that congeal to the 
trafh and bufhes that lye on the bank, and 
glitters like flakes of Ice, or Snow, in a Sun- 
fhiny day. This day 2 deputies arrived from 
the Cayugas Country. 
24th, 
