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cure a supply of coal, than to procure wood, not-withstanding that article is in great plenty here. The sugar trees afford sugar in plenty to those who are sufficiently industrious to make it. Many families, we are told, make from five hundred to a thousand pounds, and others make from eight-een to twenty-five hundred weight, every spring. The trees do not appear to be injured by draw-ing off the sap. Molasses of excellent quality is also made from this tree, and also small beer, equal to any thing of the kind we met with at this place, produced from the sap. Shall I say, a proof of the instability of the human mind, under the most bountiful supply of temporal blessings, is to be drawn from the pre-sent disposition of the inhabitants of Redstone? Blest with a country rich and fruitful, and posses-sing other great natural advantages, there is nevertheless a general feeling of discontent. The new country beyond the Ohio, lately opened for sale, has set the general mind afloat. We saw people who were well settled, and who some years ago, too, had passed the meridian of life, strongly affected with the prevailing mania. 9th. The river Monongahela not having yet risen, we are greatly disappointed in our wish and intention to take boat at Redstone for the mouth of the Miami of the Ohio. We have, therefore, no other alternative than to prosecute a long and doubtless fatiguing journey by land. This morning, whilst we were preparing to pro-