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Crossing this stream we ascended the Steepest hill we have met with since we left home, it is admirable that so many Wagons which pass this road, should be able to get up it, I suppose we have passed by 20 this this day, mostly with families going to new Countries, a number of which were Crowded with Children; 17 people of different descrip- -tions belonged to one wagon. — when I view- -ed the hills and mountains about this River, I was struck with admiration that it ever found a way through them to the Susquehanna, but I will assure my readers that its meanders are very various, and serpentine, some 5 or 6 miles after we Crossed it this stream we had the River nearby on each hand perhaps not more than half a mile a- -part. we took up our Quarters at one Hartley’s near the its banks, of said river, he has a valuable plantation, and pretily situated. most of this days ride has been through a very broken, poor, and thinly settled Coun- -try. — 38 miles 5th Went 6 miles up the Juniatta, through a rough, Mountainous Country to Bedford, having about one mile back crossed the