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hearts, and may you be blessed with a clear Sky, Smooth Roads, and plentifull harvest to the end of your days. — I commend you to the care of the great Spirit, and am in heart your friend. Ja: Wilkinson Commander in chief of the Troops of the United States Being now ready to depart, we took leave of several of the first Characters of this place, who wished us success, and affectionately bid us farewell. —we then crossed the Allegeny River at the Town, and a little below the Fort, it was a clear, beau -tiful stream, about 50 perches wide and 6 feet deep, has much more of a Current than the Monongahela, and contains more water. we now entered a Wilderness Country but little inhabited the settlements not more than 2 or 3 years old, and scarce of provision for Man or horse, — for a few miles after we Crossed the River the land was very good, but in the general it fell short of the Idea I en- -tertained of it. in this days ride the