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Bridgeport to that said place, the face of the Coun -try has no remarkable variation, it is all the way a continual succession of hills tho not so high and steep as about Bridge- -port, the Land gradually decreased in its fertility, is all the way settled tho thinly, some fields of Wheat and rye looked very well, yet many others were poor, was generally heavy Loaded with timber; the greatest body of which was White Oak, Some Sugar Maple along the low ground, yet the further to- -wards Pittsburgh the scarcer, I have seen next to no pine since I came over the Moun- -tains; some Chesnut in places; but rails are mostly made of White Oak; as are there houses, — We had every little prospect of Pittsburgh, until we arrived near by, the Town stands in a beautiful plain surrounded by very high hills, just about the Junktion of the Allegeny and Monongahely Rivers, Which Rivers when united make the Ohio, we descended a very steep hill or Mountain to the Mononga- -hela, not fit for any Wagon to go up, or down, though they often pass it, the river flows gently along