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5mo 1 A fine day for traveling, tho warm, went to Abraham Gibbons’s 11 miles, here by appointment we met with Joel Swayne, and Halladay Jack- -son, two young Men who with Henry Simmons had given up to reside some time among the Indians for their religious and temporal benefit, took dinner here, then went 7 miles to Lan- -caster, where stopping and doing some business, we went on 12 miles to Wrights ferry on Susquehanna, where there is a pretty Town lately laid out, it con- -tains 20 or more good buildings, beauti- -fully situated on an elevation above the River, the shore of which was lined with many thousand feet of White Pine boards and other Lumber which had been down that River for near half a Mile. most of this days ride has been was through a fruitful well improved Country, with good Stone