WOODS. 
fuel. From the top of them you have a very 
grand view of the plain below, on which stands 
the town of Wilkesfoarre, and of the river Sus¬ 
quehanna!], which may be traced above the 
town, winding amidst the hills for a,great num¬ 
ber of miles. 
The country beyond the mountains, is ex¬ 
tremely rough, and but very thinly settled, of 
course still much wooded. The people, at the 
few houses scattered through it, appeared to 
live much better than the inhabitants of any 
Other part of the States which 1 before passed 
through. At every house where we stopped 
we found abundance of good bread, butter, tea, 
coffee, chocolate, and venison; and indeed we 
fared sumptuously here, in comparison to what 
we had done for many weeks preceding. 
The woods in many parts of this country 
consisted almost wholly of hemlock trees, 
which are of the pine species, and grow only 
on poor ground. Many of them were of an 
unusually large size, and their tops so closely 
matted together, that after having; entered into 
the depth of the woods you could see the sky 
in but very few places* The brush-wood un¬ 
der these trees, different from wjhat I ever saw 
elsewhere, consisted for the most part of the 
oleander and of the kaltriia. laurel, whose deep 
green served to render the gloom of the woods 
$tili more solemn; indeed they seemed, cony 
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