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with an elegant Valley between, the View was truly beautiful and pic--terisque as far as the Eye could reach, both to the East and West, and the Mountain in front raising its lofty head in a Majestick and de--lightful Manner, thence 5 miles to ham--burgh now Carters a smart town, thence among the Mountain up the Side of the Schuylkill where the prospect was will and romantick and in 5 or 6 miles opened to a fine plantation on one branch of the Schuylkill where we took up our quarters in a good habitation in the possession of Michal Mosyer the road for the most part pretty good. 16 Started by brake of day, a clear white-frosty-morning, 7 miles of good road, come to the second Blue Mountain, passed through a gap where a small branch of the Schuylkill has it course, the gap in places was narrow, and the