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and Cloathed with an Admirable load of Timber, so that a person who have has not been acquainted with such an Appearance would scarcely be able to form a Just Idea. We now then mounted, the Laural Hill, which proved Very high. we first passed through a Ches[t]-- nut Ridge about 2m then entred a Vast Forrest of Hemloch, Spruce &;c so thick that tho a clear day yet it ap--peared like the Dusk of the Even--ing, we presently in a few miles came unto passed through a very great Quantity of Sugar Maple, many of them from 2 to 3 or 3½ feet over 40, 50, and 60 feet fit for Sawing, also a vast Quanty of beach and Berch, fed at the Blockhouse 9 miles on a Branch of Pine Creek, from thence to a Branch of Tyoag River where we [?] 10 miles thence to Lambs on the side of sd. River 15 miles