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7th Month 19th Started from CanadarkwayLodg'd at last Night Canadadarkway with our faces set Homeward, breakfasted at our friend William Engles two miles from Town then from thence 20 miles to the Head of the Lake where we Dined at Thence to 6 miles but thinking we might reach some further rode 3 miles and staid at Hookers all Night where our horses fair'd poorly if we had but staid at the other stage three miles short, horses might faired pretty well. Twentieth rose by the time it was well Light prepar'd and mounted rode to Bath 20 miles, here is several cross'd the three times on which this settlement is, whatever inducement of the founder of this town is a secret to us, why it should be on so extreme unfertile a Soil, equal to the meanness of our Gloucester Pine Land for several miles distance to be sure yet there’s a narrow strip of middling good Bottom near the Brook on each side, but in our opinion no ways to compare with the greater part of the Bottom land in general here’s several good well looking Frame Houses, our Stage John Madcalf Public House, here we took Breakfast &; Dinner in the same Meal between eleven &; twelve, again mounted, in about one Mile distance stopp'd at William Kersey’s, who about