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part of it very rough and tedious, so that we have been desirous of finding a nearer, and better way home, we early en- -quired of Cornplanter if there was any path from this Town across the Mountains to the big Island on Susquehanna at the mouth of Baldegle Creak, he informed us there was a path, but it which was but little used, and through a rough uninhabited Country, we should have to lay out at nights, carry provision for ourselves, and some for our horses, and that it would take us five days to travel it and it was so Moun- -tainous and rough, that it would be with the greatest difficulty we could get our hor- -ses along, we then enquired for a way to Canandarque, and how far, he told us it was 160 miles, and not a very difficult road, that he and his Son Henry were going there in a few days, and he would be glad of our Company; we had felt some little draft in our Minds to go home by O--neida, and Canandarque being in the way which made the Chiefs proposal of the