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came to a fpacious level of midling land, 
oak, and pine, next to a large rich bottom, 
and at the upper end to an extenfive grove of 
white pine, after this a graffy plain of 20 acres, 
then round the end of a hill, and along a val- 
ley, and run N. by W. high timber and good 
land on the hill fide N. then W. and laftly, at 
half an hour after 8 N. here our Indians f hot 2 
young deer. The land and timber good, brown 
foil, and the ftones flat and gritty. From 
hence going over a hill we faw a gap N. N.W. 
and defcending down a fteep part of the hill 
to the head of a ftoney. brook and hollow, 
we made our way through it, it was full of 
fpruce and white pine ; at the bottom we 
killed a rattle fnake, then croffed the brook 
and traverfed a rich bottom N. N. E. the 
upper end pine, fpruce, oak, laurel, poplar 
and chefnut, fome limes, ftoney and brown 
foil, feveral times croffed the creek and over 
rich bottoms and ftoney hill fides with laurel, 
pine, fpruce and fwamps, till towards night. 
On the north fide of a deep ftoney yet rich 
foil, I found roots of Ginfeng ; at night we 
lodged by a creek, and the two Indians that 
feafted with us, who accompanied us to the 
Cayuga branch. 
The 14 th, Having forded the creek we 
kept generally a N. N.E. courfe, moftly along 
rich bottoms interfperfed with large fpruce 
and white pine, oak, beach and plane tree, 
ginfeng, 
