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afternoon. In the afternoon we borrowed a 
canoe, and paddled up the Weft branch. It is 
near two-thirds as broad as the North Baft or 
main river : I went afhore on the fouth fide 
to the point of a hill to look for curiofities, 
but found none ; the rock confifted of a dark 
colored thelly ftone : Then we diverted our 
felves with fwimming, the water was chin 
deep moft of the breadth, and fo clear one 
might have feen a pin at the bottom. At 
night I hung up my blanket like a hammock, 
that I might lay out of the reach of the fleas, 
troublefome and conftant guefts in an Indian 
hut ; but I found 11157 contrivance too cool for 
a place open on all fides, tho covered with a 
kind of granary, efpecially the wind blowing 
cold from the N. W. 
10. We departed in the morning with 
Shickcalamy and his fon, he being the chief 
man in the town, which confifted of Delaware 
Indians ; he was of the fix nations, or rather 
a Frenchman , born at Mont-real , and adopted 
b}7 the Oneidoes , after being taken prifoner ; 
but his son told me he was of the Cayuga na- 
tion, that of his mother, agreeable to the In- 
dian rule Partus fequitur ventrcm, which is as 
reafonable among them as among cattle, fince 
the whole burthen of bringing up falls on her ; 
therefore in cafe of feparation the children fall 
to her thare. 
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