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pick out the fticks, roots or ftones, and make 
it frnooth on the top, a third, to cleanfe the 
ftomach of the living from gall or any thing 
elfe that made them tick ; a fourth was a 
cordial to chear up their fpirits ; a fifth, to 
cloath their bodies and keep then warm, 
a fixth, to join them in mutual friendfhip, a 
feventh, to requeft them to let them fettle on 
a branch of Sufquehanah , another to intreat the 
5 nations that they would take a little care 
to protech their women from infults while out 
a hunting, and the reft for fuch like purpofes. 
This bufinefs lafted 4 hours, then we dined 
on Indian corn and fquash foop, and boiled 
bread. In the afternoon, I went on the 
weftern mountain as I had the day before on 
the eaftern ; it was very rich and full of tall 
timber quite to the top, the trees were linden, 
elm, fugar-maple, white walnut, oak, hickory 
and cheftnut, befides ginfeng, and moft fort of 
herbs that grow on our rich lime-ftone land. 
Thefe 2 days the wind was fouth and warm 
and feveral fhowers to the S. K. The council 
met at 9 o’clock, and the kettles of foop and 
a basket of dumplings were brought in for 
our dinner ; after dinner the Anticoques de- 
livered a belt and a string of Wampum , with 
a complaint that the Marylanders had depofed 
their king, and defined leave to chufe one for 
themfelves ; to this : as well as all the articles 
opened yefterday, the chiefs returned plaufible 
but 
