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came to oak and hickery land, then down a 
fteep hill producing white pine to a creek called 
Conuria a branch of Towintobow, where we 
lodged in a bottom producing ginfeng, farea- 
parilla, mediola, maidenhair, darallia, panax, 
mitela, chriftophoriana, with white, red and 
blue berries, we had a fine warm night, and 
one of the Indians that had fo generoufly 
feafted us, fung in a folemn harmonious man- 
ner, for feven or eight minutes, very different 
from the common Indian tune, from whence 
I conjectured it to be a hymn to the great 
fpirit as they exprefs it. In the morning I 
asked the Interpreter what the Indian meant 
by it. but he did not hear him, and indeed I 
believe none of the company heard him but 
myfelf, who wake with a little noife, rarely 
fleeping found abroad. 
The 1 6th, We began our journey up a little 
hill, fteep and fomewhat ftony, and then 
through oak, chefnut, huckleberries, and 
honeyfuckles, the land poor, fometimes white 
pine, fpruce and lawrel ; thus far N. but at 
half an our after feven N. E. through a great 
white pine, fpruce fwamp full of roots, and 
abundance of old trees lying on the ground, 
or leaning againft live ones, they ftood fo 
thick that we concluded it almoft impoffible 
to fhoot a man at ioo yards diftant, let him 
ftand never fo fair. The ftraight bodies of 
thefe trees ftood fo thick, a bullet muft hit 
one before it could fly ioo yards, in the moft 
open 
