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So that we slept but little, our horses, as may readily be supposed, fared no better, they would away out to eating, and then in a little time return trot- -ting back to the fire, and it was with with much difficulty we got them sad- -dled in the Morning. 45 miles 17 Set of early this Morning, being willing to leave Muschetoe Camp, the road not so good as Yesterday, having a large number, of deep Swamps, and about 20 miles of a thick woods to pass through, wherein we found no diminution of the Muschetoes, but about noon we ar- -rived in at the plains within 8 miles of the Chenesee River, where our horses could eat grass without much molestati- -on having left the big flys and the o- -ther tormenting insects chiefly behind us. We crosed the River about 4, on the flats of which there was a great burden of natu- -ral grass, and about the Road Timothy &; Clover, the seed having droped from horses as the traveled along, I lodged at Pearsons 4½ Miles on this side the River, having left