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ginfeng, and many more. We frequently paffed 
tlie creek (which was very ftrong) for the 
mountains often clos’d on one fide ; it was big 
enough to turn two mills. At 9 o’clock the 
Indians fished for trout, but caught none, be- 
ing provided with no other means of taking 
them but by poles fharpened at the end to 
ftrike them, and the water deep : at the foot 
of a hill we croffed the creek once more, and 
rode along a fine bottom, full of great wild 
nettles. The timber was fugar, birch, fugar 
maples, oak and poplar, our courfe N. W. 
continued until after 12 o’clock, then followed 
the eaft branch N. N. E. about a mile, all a 
rich bottom where we found a Licking Pond , 
where we dined, the backs parts of our coun- 
try are full of thefe liching ponds, fome are 
of black fulphureous mud, fome of pale clay, 
the deer and elk are fond of licking this clay, 
fo that the pond becomes enlarged to a rood or 
half an acre, the foil, I fuppofe contains fome 
faline particles agreeable to the deer, who 
come many miles to one of thefe places, there 
had been a great elk there that morning, but 
the Indians told us that many years ago fome 
Indians quarrelled there, in the fquable one 
loft his life, and that this made the deer keep 
from thence for many years. 
Now traveling up the run eaft, we left it on 
the right hand, to go up a hill covered with 
fpruce, oak fpruce, lawrel, opulus, yew, with 
E 2 ginfeng 
