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hesitation we were taken in, where we found good accommodations. Some discou- -ragements attended my mind on my way thither, concerning the business we were going on, it being in its self important, to be transacted among a people of a Strange language, in an unknown and Wilderness Country, and a great un- -certainty how we should be able to get the goods we have in care to our desir- -ed port; but upon our arrival here, and being introduced to some for whom we had letters of Credit; we met with a very kind reception, and they appear- -ed hearty in assisting us, and they in- -formed, that the goods sent from Phila- -delphia where safely arrived a few days ago, and were in the Public Store. The [drawing of a sun] Deputy Quarter Master informed us that he would send them up to Cornplan- -ter's Village, which was at least 140 miles by land, and abundantly more by Water. that it was a very lucky time for them to go, the River being neither to low nor