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of the name of the latter, we were informed that many years ago, a white man and a negro who were hunting together, accidentally fell in with an Indian upon this ridge who was armed; both the negro and the Indian betook them-selves to trees, presented their guns at each other, and fired at the same moment, and both fell dead. Thier images are cut upon the trees behind which they fell, as a memento of the circumstance. The ridge has ever since been called the Negro Mountain. Deer and turkies are numerous upon these mountains. The hunters have in many places erected seats, as heretofore described, for the pur-pose of shooting deer. Over the greater part of our journey to-day we have found snow two feet in depth. A tolera-ble track is however beaten for us by a descrip-tion of pedlars, who pass by the name of Packers. These people carry on a considerable trade be-tween the Redstone settlements and Winchester, in Virginia, as also with several other villages in the western part of that State. They take with them upon horses, bags of flax, which article they purchase at Redstone at a low price; this they dispose of at an advance, and in return carry salt, for which they are well paid at Redstone. It is not unusual to meet a Packer, having under his direction half a dozen loaded horses. These animals on meeting travel-lers, do not turn aside from the beaten path. We