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Riding two Weeks difference in the Season. When on the Chesnut hill there is one of the most extensive prospects that is to be met with in traveling, both to the North, to the West, and to the South, I had no doubt but the View was of 50 miles extent, it was not so de- lightful as some I have seen, for want of a lofty mountain rising 10 or more miles in front, but it was Chequered with many Plan- -tations: in every direction, the View look -ed like an extensive plain, but when we came to the traverse it, we found many Steep Hills, but tho no Mountain; neither is there any to the Westward in the United States equal to those we have Crossed. We lodged with our kind friend Thomas Gibson on the Bank of the River. 41 miles 7th a pleasant day, went to my Kinsman’s Reese Cadwaladers, near BrownsVille on the Monongahala, we Crossed the Yoxge Yoxhiogeny in a boat it was about 6 feet deep and perhaps 150 yards wide, in about half a mile after we crossed the River, we passed by a Merchant Mill erected on a very Curious Seat, the stream was small, but had a natural perpendicular fall over