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but in the morning I found him and his com- 
panion, to my great joy, faft afleep by the 
outfide of the cabin. 
27^, We fet out early and found our 
canoe fafe where we left it, and it was with 
much fatisfadftion that I entered it. At half 
an hour after ten, we got to the firft fall, above 
the great one, the Indians brought the canoe to 
fhore and made fign for us to difembark and 
walk along afhore, while they ftept into the 
river, and hawled the canoe up the fall about 
a quarter of a mile, by good land. We reim- 
barked again, and at twelve came to the Onei- 
do branch, up which the Albany traders re- 
turn, after 2 or 3 months trade at Ofwego- 
Caftle. At 3 o’clock we entered the Onondago 
lake, the upper end of which we gained by five, 
the land about the lake is pretty good and fome 
large marfhes and rich low ground moftly on 
each fide, but here and there the hills come 
clofe to the water : I think it muft be eight 
miles long and above one broad, very brackifh 
at the fait plain ; very deep in fome places 
near the middle, but fhallow for 100 yards 
from the fhore. The Indians paddled the ca- 
noe a little way higher up the ftream and might 
have brought us to the town, if the fallen 
trees had been removed ; but whatever nature 
has done for them (and fhe is no where more 
bountiful) they are too lazy by any trou- 
ble of their own to improve ; but when com- 
pelled by the moft urgent neceffity. We 
