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very kindly ; his houfe is about fix miles from 
the Blue Mountains. 
The 6 th , we fet forward and afcended the 
firft Blue ridge , from the top of which we 
made an obfervation, Conrad Weifers Hill bear- 
ing fouth 20 degrees eaft, the northern prof- 
pedt to two gaps, thro’ which we were to pafs 
to the North Hill , N. 30 deg. W. about 10 
miles diftant. The top and fouth fide of this 
ridge is midling land, half a quarter of a 
mile broad, and produced fome wild grafs, 
abundance of fern, oak and chefnut trees. 
Defcending the North fide we found it more 
poor, fteep and ftony, and came foon to the 
firft branch of Swataro which runs between 
the ridges, and is 3 miles from the next branch, 
all very poor land ; but on this fecond branch 
it is good low land, with large trees of 5 
leaved white pine, poplar, and white oak, 
here we dined by a fpruce fwamp. 
After dinner we paffed the openings of two 
ridges, the laft of which was by the bank of 
the principal branch of Swataro , the foil poor 
and ftoney ; then we afcended a great ridge 
about a mile fteep, and terribly ftoney moft 
of the way : near the top is a fine tho’ fmall 
fpring of good water. At this place we were 
warned by a well known alarm to keep our 
diftance from an enraged rattle fnake that 
had put himfelf into a coiled pofture of de- 
fence, within a dozen yards of our path, but 
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