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Muncey 7th. Mo. 24th. 7My dear Friends, My last, if you have but received it, informed you unexpected return, the present is dated upon the West Branch of Sus-quehanna, more than half way home, which I hope to reach by 6th. or 7th. day next. We left Canadarquai on 3rd. day mor-ning the 19th. instead, accompanied by Abraham Lapham, one of the Friends near Mud Creek, who attended Joshua Evens with a fresh horse, to relieve his Mare, whose back was sadly galled soon after he left Otego. We're shown a small Island, tufted with trees, as we rode along the Lake, upon which the Indians of this place secreted themselves, drawing up their canoes among the bushes, when General Sullivan invaded their Country in 1778. Reached a new Settlement in the woods, 30 miles distant, by 5 o'clock. where, there being no accommodations for 12 miles, beyond we spread our blankets on the floor, and slept pretty comfortably till day light. Got to Noath the capital of the County Steuber by 10 o'clock, riding with a great deal of pleasuremost of the way along the banks of the Conhocto, delighted to be once more upon running water. The Creek is boatable so high in the spring of the year: but the town is more dependant