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us to the next house, which was about8 miles. at 11 OClock we bid our kindfnd s farewell and pursued our Journey,Cousin and I going before, giving Warn-ing of the difficult places, My Husbandand Moses Wilson Junr holding the Wag-gon, the banks were so steep and sidlingthat it appeared impossible to get alongwithout upsetting. in a while we cross-ed another large branch of the Pine Creek, andafter traveling a piece further we gotstoped by the trees that were across theRoad, we then got help from one Boat-mans, and it took 5 men near twohours to open to Road to his House,so as to get the Waggon along, tho itwas not half a Mile, here it lookedlikely we must leave it, tho we en- deavoured to hire help to go with usto Kings Settlementto assist in open-ing the Road, but there were but two families here, and no neighboursnear, and they busy planting corn &; nearly out of Provisation, and no Millwithin 20 miles, the Woman said she couldsupply us with Milk and butter, but thatshe had nothing else except a little Veneson