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near a mile to the town-houfe, bearing N. this 
town is called Tohicon , and lies in a rich neck 
between the branch and main river : the Indians 
welcomed us by beating their drum, as foon as 
they faw us over the branch, and continued 
beating after the Englifh manner as we rode to 
the houfe, and while we unfaddled our Horfes, 
laid in our luggage and entered our felves : the 
Houfe is about 30 foot long, and the fineft 
of any I faw among them. The Indians cut 
long grafs and laid it on the floor for us to fit 
or lie on ; feveral of them came and fat down 
and fmoked their pipes, one of which was 
fix foot long, the head of ftone, the ftem a 
reed, after this they brought victuals in the 
ufual manner: here I obferved for the firft 
time in this journey, that the worms which 
had done much mifchief in feveral parts of our 
Province, by deftroying the grafs and even 
com for two fummers, had done the fame thing 
here, and had eat off the blade of their maize 
and long white grafs, fo that the ftems of both 
flood naked 4 foot high; I faw fome of the 
naked dark coloured grubs half an inch long, 
tho’ moft of them were gone, yet I could 
perceive they were the fame that had vifited 
us two. months before ; they clear all the grafs 
in their way, in any meadow they get into, 
and feem to be periodical as the locufts and 
caterpillar, the latter of which I am afraid 
will do us a great deal of mifchief next fum- 
mer. Here one of our hofts at the hunting 
cabin 
