110 TECS SERVICES OE LIEUF-COLONEL FRiNCIS DOWN MAN, R.A, 
boats are sent in sliore to sound the depth of water; they go in shore 
without being in the least interrupted by the inhabitants, and it seems 
worth remarking that we have not had a single shot fired at us from 
the shore since our entrance, though the ships have sailed and an¬ 
chored far within musket shot several times. We have seen 
several of the rebels on the shore and about their houses, and 
a good number of cattle, by which it seems they either did not ex¬ 
pect us here or are well disposed towards us. We are now expecting 
orders to land every hour. Our guns and stores are all in readiness. 
It is imagined by some of us that the General's plan is to land all 
the troops at this place aud proceed to Philadelphia, which place is 
not above fifty miles from us, and that the shipping will return and 
join us again up the Delaware. This morning early the Admiral 
and the General went in their barges up the Susquehannah River 
and other places, also up the Elk River to sound the water, and we 
imagine to find a convenient place for landing. They were out from 
5 a.m. till 2 p.m. They went on board the Roebuck to dinner, as the 
Admiral's ship lies off Sassafras River at some distance. A very 
heavy storm of thunder and lightning this evening. 
(To be continued.) 
