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Me the currents and creeks are chieffy formed 
by the water oufing and draining from the 
bottoms of the mountains and hills, and are 
gradually collected in this manner into rivu- 
lets. But on the fouth of this great ridge, it 
gufhes out between the rocks in ftreams 
big enough to turn a mill, in other places 
rifing and bubbling out of the earth in quan- 
tity fufficient to fill a pipe an inch fquare, or 
thereabout. 
Our journey now lay through very rich 
bottoms to a creek 6 miles from Shamokin , a 
great extent of fruitful low ground ftill con- 
tinuing. Here we found a fine meadow of 
grafs on our right, and rich dry ground on 
the left. In our path lay a large Rattle- 
fnake, but he civilly crept into the grafs, and 
let us pafs without danger. Our way from 
hence lay through an old Indian field of ex- 
cellent foil, where there had been a town, the 
principal footfteps of which are peach-trees, 
plumbs and excellent grapes. A great flood 
came down this branch a few years paft, and 
drove abundance of fand over this ground a 
great depth among the trees. It rofe 20 feet 
perpendicular, wathing away many yards of 
the bank, which was compofed of gravel and 
fand, and doubtlefs had been raifed to that 
heighth by former inundations, for the wood 
ground 30 rod from the river is feveral feet 
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