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Edward Hallucks, on the Banks of the North River, 160 miles N. E. of Philad. a 7th. day morn.g 6th. Mo. 3rd. 1796 My dear Friends, We reached this Place last evening, and some of us, being thoroughly tired of rising early and lying down late, are glad to embrace the grateful intermission of first day, among Friends, at the expense of to day: so we have put out our Cloaths, to be washed' and are mostly employed, in the different nooks and corners of an old fashioned house, in opening our hearts to the tender Connections we have left behind us, the more endeared by distance, difficulty, and solitude. The particulars of our Journey are, so far, scarcely interesting enough to bear recital: yet I should feel myself wanting to the partiality of love and affection if I were to omit what I know will be grateful to you, and so shall proceed from stage to stage with all the regularities of a Journalist. Having all collected at Caspar Haines's by 3 o'clock, we took leave of the Friends who accompanied us about 5, and rode, mostly in the rain, over very muddy road, 10 miles to David Cummings's, on the old York Road, where we were kindly entertained, two of our Company going to