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6 day the 17 a Cold frozen night, and a snowy day, this Morning was trying and discouraging, set of by the way of Williamsburgh 14 miles through a beautiful wheat Country, not much under timber here we got Coffee for breakfast for the first time since we left Munsy thence to Danville 17 miles over a very Beautiful rich country we thought much of it superior to any we passed over and very Curiously situated hav-ing an high steady ridge or Mountain on our left, and the Connesscragy a branch of the Genesee on our left and right with a Beautiful Vale, the high hill and Vale was like a dunghill, for richness abounding with very large Walnut, Shellbark Hickory with a Mixture of White Oak Ash &;c. the whole of the 17 miles abounds with lively streams rushing with great rapidity down from the sd.mountain that every Plantation ma[y] be sufficiently supplyed with Water and taken of the land with pleasure lodged at Samuel Faulkners, where we met with very good accommodations