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and pretty, having very good pasture withinthe enclosure. The house we went into had alarge quantity of corn hanging upon it; con-siderably more than I saw all the time I wasat Alleghany. We understood they sellmany bushels every year. Most of the principal men in the village and others gathered into the house where wewere, and a white man living amongst themcould interpret, we informed them of whatwe had been doing at Cornplanters settlement:and of friends concern for the Indians in general;with which they expressed their satisfaction: say-ing they took it very kind that we had called tosee them, and to inform them of what we hadbeeing doing at Jeniscatego, for they had heard something about. We then shook hands and badethem farewell. In about 7 miles of a swampytedious road, we arrived at Lake Erie, and enjoyed viewing this watery element as wetravelled along the beach to the mouth ofBuffalo, 29 miles. The prospect throughthe remaining part of the day was pleasant,rather heightened by our having been so long con-fined in the woods. On our left the surf rolled gently tothe shore two or three feet high: on our right