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but fubtil anfwers ; then they gave us 2 ftrings 
withal, telling us, that now they had thrown 
water on our fire, and we were at liberty to 
return home when we pleafed, they all took 
their leave, and bid us adieu by fhaking hands 
very kindly, and feemingly with much affec- 
tion. This night the young men getting into 
liquor, kept fhouting and finging till morn- 
ing. 
3 d, We prepared for fetting forward, and 
many of the chiefs came once more to take 
their farewell ; fome of them brought us pro- 
vifion for our journey, we fhook hands again 
and fet out at 9. 
It was greatly to my mortification, that I 
was forced to return for the moft part the 
fame way I came. We had intended to go 
through the Mohawks country to Albany , but 
our 2 Indians could not be perfuaded to go that 
way, tho’ we offered to bear their charges, 
and the chiefs were not willing we fhould leave 
them to pafs through the wildernefs alone, 
as they came to gratify us and further our 
bufinefs. This day was fair, and the wind S. 
In the afternoon, we afcended that lovely 
mountain S. W. which divides the waters that 
render tribute to the great ftreams of St. Lau- 
rence and Sufquehanah. We did not diredlly 
crofs the mountain, but rode a fmall way on 
its fummit under the grateful fhade of thofe 
lofty trees that every way adorn it, and 
after- 
