reft that I had taken fo much pains to fecure 
againft the vermin. 
July 8 . We croffed the creek and rode along a 
rich bottom near the river for two miles, pro- 
ducing moft kinds of our foreft trees, and a 
large fpecies of Scutelaria two feet high : 
thence along the river fide, near a mile N. 20 
deg. E. to the foot of a fertil hill, where 
leaving the river, our way N. E. though 
feveral narrow valleys and over small hills, 
generally middling land, yielding oak, hickery, 
chefnut, and fome pine, to the fummit of a 
high hill, where we faw Shamokin Hill , dis- 
tant four miles only ; going down we came 
to uneven fony ground producing pitch pine 
and oak, as far as the point of Shamokin Hill , 
whence we had a pleafant profpedt of the fall 
of the river, quite crofs without any great 
Rocks. The ftream runs very fwift, but 
canoes or fiat-bottomed boats may go up or 
down well enough : the bottom of this def- 
cent is wafhed by Shamokin Creek three rods 
wide, this we forded to a fruitful bottom half 
a mile wide, beyond which two miles good 
oak land brought us to the town of Shamo- 
kin. It contains eight cabbins near the river’s 
bank right oppofite the mouth of the weft 
branch that interlocks with the branches of 
Allegheny. It is by means of this neighbour- 
hood that we may , reafonably hope, when 
thefe parts fhall be better known, that a very 
beneficial 
