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Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

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Canadarque and at that the directest road there, was so Miry that we had better go by Jemima Wilkinson’s settlement, which was so far round that our minds became closely exercised to know what was best to do, but upon closely attending to the subject, and taking the that part of our appointment of Visiting those of our society about Canadarque and parts &; parts adjacent into view are felt most easy to turn our Course towards what is called Jemima's the friends settlement, tho it was much about, it was a solitary road, there being but a few settlements , and those two or three expected, were within four Miles of Bath the rest of the way an entire Wilderness, the Land for a few Miles from Bath was a high dry soil and thin the Timber Chiefly pitch pine the soil thin thence through a low fat Bottom very swampy, thence over the North end of Mountain’ beautifully Timbered, not very