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is some reason to hope it will rise. We intended to have set of this Morning by Eight OClock for Genesinguhta, and and agreed with Henry Obeal last evening to go with us, and be our en- -terpretter; it is now eleven OClock, yet nei- -ther he, nor his Fathers family have got their breakfast, tho we have been hurry- -ing him for two hours past, about 12 two of us set of on horse back, the other three having started an hour sooner with one Indian in a Canoe; we rode the River one mile above the Town, and went up the Eastside of it, to said Town our first 3 or 4 miles was through an Open bot- -tom, thinly timbered, and good riding, then passed through thick Timber, a large quan- -tity of which were Sugar Maple, thence through a thick Forrest of Hemlock, and pine, very difficult to pass, to the shore opposite the place of destination; here we again rode the River tho wide and deep, we stoped at the House of a Chief who went with us to our inten ded Settlement, here we met with our friends who went