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evening by another party of the Seneka In¬ 
dians, who were going to a village situated on 
the Genesee River, and in the morning we all 
set out together. Early in the day we came 
to several plains similar to those we had before 
met with, but not so extended, on the borders 
of one of which we saw, for the first time a 
bark hut, apparently inhabited. On going up 
to it, our surprise was not a little to find two 
men, whose appearance and manners at once 
bespoke them not to be Americans. After 
some conversation we discovered them to be 
two Englishmen, who had formerly lived in 
London as valets cle chambve , and having 
scraped together a little money, had pet out for 
New York, where they expected at once to be- 
come great men; however they soon found to 
their cost, that the expence of living in that 
city was not suited to their pockets, and they 
determined to go and settle in the back coun¬ 
try. They were at no loss to find persons who 
had land to dispose of, and happening to fall 
in with a jobber who owned some of these 
plains, and who painted to them in lively co¬ 
lours the advantage they would derive from 
settling on»good land already cleared to their 
hand, they immediately purchased a consider¬ 
able track of this barren ground at a round 
price, and set out to fix themselves upon it. 
From the neighbouring settlements, which 
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