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was mean, &; attended with considerable hardship and diffi-culty. my mind was touched with Sympathy and a tender feel-ing for their Condition. 25th. Reaching to Burleigh we were fa- voured with a solid comfortable Meeting there. Since I left Bal-timore until I came here, my friend Charity Cook &; her Sister Su-sanna from South Carolina have been in Company with me, to goodSatisfaction, we now parted: and with the friend who bore me Comp- 26th any I had a Meeting at Black-Water, which was in measure solidand pretty large. On the 28th. we also had a pretty comfortablemeeting at a Place called Seacock; And the day following one atthe Western Branch; this was a time of very close searching per-haps to some profit: I understood that two young men herewho never had been at one of our Meetings before, were consi-derably reached &; Affected. 30th. We now came to Little River in North-Carolina and attend-ed a meeting there: &; the next day began their Yearly Meetingof business at the same place; The first sitting appear'd to me a low seasonbut in the next I thought business was conducted rather better,&; in the Sittings of this yearly Meeting, I thought there was much condescention among friends. The testimony against the im-proper use of Distilled Spirits &; the making such Liquors hathnot risen high in this Meeting, altho' friends had the subject before them.I was with a Committee on the revival of their discipline and