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Brandywine, we then went down the North side of said River through a Rich Coun- -try thick settled to Bratons 3 miles where we took up our quarters, where we got good ac- -comodations both for ourselves and horses. Farmers busy Mowing and making hay today, the first we have seen, Grass so stout, scarcely room on the ground to dry it 24 miles Seventh day last about 4 Oclock in the afternoon while we were at Stockbridge a Violent hail storm passed through the coun- -try a little to the North of us, its direction was nearly East and its extenton 20 or more miles, and from one to two in breadth, as we returned to Oneida next Morning We beheld its destructive effects, on the corn, Oates, &;c; and this day for more than five miles, it was affecting to see the destruction it made: whole fields of wheat were entirely cut off, so that we could not see one head standing, corn, Flax, and Oates fared but little better, Peas in the Gardens and fields, Acres being Sown here, were entirely cut off, destroy -ed, large fields of Timothy were so bro-