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sold it at the rate of four Dollars per Gallon it being an excellent medicine, a few rods from the House was a stream of water which appeared large enough to turn a Saw-mill the Man of the House informed us that it proceeded from one Spring about 20 rods above 15th of the Month set forward through the Woods, and followed the course by marked trees, which our pilot had done the Summer before, we found the way worse this Day than any we had hitherto met with, some places very hilly and a multitude of trees and old Logs lying in the way, which made it very difficult getting along, other places the Ground being pared with the roots of large trees with many cavities between them, and overgrown with moss which made it very dangerous crossing, in the evening we arived at the House of James Justice on the Waters of Brokenstraw where we lodged that night on the floor by the fire as we did the night before 16th of the Month about noon reached the the mouth of Conewango Creek where a