XVIII 
ASPY BAY 
THE road to the north of the Half 
Way House continues through the 
wilderness. We found it very rough, 
and there were no views to beguile 
the way other than endless woods of evergreens 
spread over the mountains, dismal swamps, 
and stony hills where ruts were deep and 
pitch holes were many. 
In this wilderness we passed two men in a 
waggon. They drew into the bushes to give 
us way, and we saw in their faces a desire to 
ask us our names, where we came from, and 
where we were going, so we stopped and an- 
swered. One of the men then forced upon 
our acceptance three or four small and very 
hard apples of which he was proud, because 
they came from his own tree. 
In the midst of this frightful wilderness we 
found a French settlement of three or four 
houses. 
Why it was there among dead trees, let who 
can, answer. The miserable shanties and their 
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