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three Miles over Muncy Creek, 33 Miles this day, this days travel pretty good Roads and clear of Stones 18 a fine morning, and pleasant day for traveling, stoped, and took an ear--ly Dinner at the Widdow Harreses* at *On Roasted and Baked Venison, persons having killed 3 the day before and 20 this fall Loyalsock 9 miles, thence up the Banks of Susquehanna to Lycomun 6 miles, then we turned a North Coarse of up the sd. Lycomun 10 miles to Skylers, among the Mountains, where we Lodged, the Road from William Ellis’s to Lycomun, is thr Level, clear of Stones, and very good, the timber a Mixture of White Oak, Pitchpine, &;c, and the Land in general very good. Up the Lycomun the road to this place crossed the Creek 7 times, the bottom we went up Deep and furtile, with some a few Cabbins &; a little improved in places the valley was narrow with high moun--tains on each side, this bottom was very heavy timbred abundance of lofty White pine, butternut, button Wood, Sugar Maple &;c. 19