by cutting a toad acrofs a neck of land., I accordingly difpatched two
men to afcertain the e*a& diftance, and we employed the interval of their
abfenoe in unloading and getting the canoe out of the water. It was
eight in the evening when we arrived , at the bapk of the great river;
-This Journey was three quarters o f a mile: Eaft-North-Eaft, through a
continued fwamp, where, in many places, we waded up to the middie of
our thighs. Onr courfe in the £mall river was about South-Eaft by Eaft
three miles. A t length we.enjoyed, after all oor toil and a a a x icy-
expreffible fatisfaflion of finding ourfelves on the bank of a navigable
-fiver, on the Weft fide of the firft great range of mountains.
CHAP.
CHAPTER VH,
Rainy night. Proceed on, the great river,.. Cirewmjtances-.oj it. Account
; j/wurfesi 'Com p See a f i g h t s white
, duck, -w tk jk t WMxQfcx The, difficult,Si
■ ofthm pejf&ge,: Abmimce ofwild. omons. Pe-end>arkpn the river. Sec
feme o f'ih e mtives. 2 % <jUJwt their camp m tjfy in to th e-vm ^
i Cmvfes continued, MiU a w d fker, &c. $i*wm/farW' 9f d w -
... Arrive at an Irtdian habitation. Defcriptimof A p cp ^ g f a;guriou?
imchhm ta c v b h ^ y Land, to prqewe pafrkjor W §m $k
. mg a new canoe. Conceal a §mnti%l o f pqmmitM J o^ 0 o p ^ ^ p n o n r
vi■ ndurnj- Succeffiona/'cour/es. Meet thenfitipcs,. Q%? inter*-
cour/eiwith them.
v DeJcriptian ofthofi people.
§ r793*
I t rained throughout the night and till feyéja in the morning ; nor was is!
i forty that the weather gave m© m -fiftç ls4ïïlgîRg my peqple
that additional reft, which thçir fatigqes,:dj»ing ,|fee fe i thsoe ^ y s4 renr
dered fb ecanfertable to thesi> ffeffffli 8? <hf
water, .and driven; on .by aftropg current, when^P hefted Eaft-^outhr
E^ft half »«ite, SoythrWeft by Sppfeh half a mil%^futh*rl§o»|h-E#
half a mde, South-Weft half & mile, went • to N&fi®$h-Ws?R half p*
mile,.