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were several times under difficulties in making our way through the snow on their account. 3d mo. 1st. This day we travelled thirty six miles, passed through the villages Woodstack and Uniontown, and after night reached the house of our friend, Jonah Cadwalader, in the neighborhood of Redstone, Old Fort, and near the Monongahela river. On our way we passed a place called the Great Meadows, upon the Alleghany Mountains. This place is noted for an entrenchment, cast up by General Washing-ton, then Colonel Washington, when retreating from a defeat given to a small force under his command, (near the junction of the Alleghany and Monongahela rivers,) history says by a much superior body of French and Indians. We also passed over the spot where Gen. Braddock was buried. His army of 1200 chosen men was de-feated near Fort Du Quesne, in an unexpected attack by the Indians. We are told that the General and half this number were killed, and sixty-four out of eighty-five of his officers; of those who escaped was Washington, at the time Aid-de-Camp to General Braddock. The de-feated army brought off their dead commander and buried him in the road, in order to elude the search of the Indians for his dead body. It may be remarked that the land in the neighborhood of the Great Meadows is very level and the timber heavy, which indicates the goodness of the soil. A considerable body of