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to ftay our ftomachs, and foon after a large 
kettle full of fmall homony boil’d in ftrong 
venifon broth ; this was noble entertainment, 
and too good to leave any of. I heartily 
pityed the poor Squaw , for I believed fhe had 
dreffed it for herfelf and feveral children : fhe 
alfo obliged us to accept of a fine piece of 
venifon to carry away. Here we killed a rat- 
tle fnake, the second we had feen to day : at 
one we continued our journey through groves of 
pine of a ftupendous ftature ; the land mid- 
ling for 2 miles S. W. to the river, then a 
variable courfe over land of equal goodnefs, 
oak and hickory, fome bottoms rich ; and by 
three we crofs’d a fine creek where we fpyed 
a grey fquirrel which our Indian would have 
fhot, had it not been on the top of a white 
oak : here we found very ftony ground, great 
ftones having been drove by one common 
force, into a form like that of fish fcales, 
yet this was a mile from the river, and many 
yards perpendicular above the bed of it, this 
may be the effedts of the univerfal deluge, or 
fome mighty torrent of water fince that, muft 
have flowed over thefe ftones and wafhed them 
thus bare. We travelled till about two hours 
by the fun, and then pitched by the river, 
which run full W. There was high barren 
mountains on the upper fide, here the river 
was deep and fmooth enough for flat bottom’d 
veffels, which made us heartily wifh that we 
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