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to expect that before long there will be a road opened between these places not which will containing be more than 14 or 15 miles 7th of the week 11th a rainy Morning not more Snow fell last night than about two inches deep, wrote a number of Letters to some friends in this neighbour--hood, and feeling our minds easy to return, we made preparations to pass homewards, the had not the season been so far advanced we would have been easy to have stayed a few days longer, about 11 OClock we left our tender friends at Black Creek with Hearts full of Gratitude that we had been amongst them, and some of them bore us Compa--ny as far as the River, where we ar--rived about ½ after two OClock, havin[g] rode about 8 miles down the Beech on lake Erie, we were ise in num--ber, and the Wind blowing high and