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we have Crossed four Large Streams of the Susquehanna in 14 miles each of them we Judged as large again as Bran--dywine they were all of them more than Belly deep, and we felt truly thankful Considering the great fall of Rain that we are safely over them 29 miles --- here we met with two travelers that who had Just come from the Block--house, they informed us the Road there was so bad that it cost them two days >hard traveling, which and that we could not reach there it in one day tho but 35 miles, this information was ve--ry discouraging, for their was no stage or house short of 23 miles of sd. Blockhouse yet upon considering the circumstances we concluded to make a trial of going through in one day, and if we failed to lye in the Woods, Cold and Snowy as it was