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John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

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increased not only in Roughness, but in most intolerable Bogs &; Mire, for about 10 Miles, to a place called the Block House: where we dined, and fed out Horses, much in the same Manner as we breakfasted; only that we had better Troughs to feed in: Here is a tolerable House, and might be of great use to Travail-ors, was there but a suitable per-son living in it: but its present Occupant is not only so unpro-vided with Accommodation that it is seldom anything can be had either for man or Beast excepting a little Liquor; but is