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12th Month, 4th. I travelled this day mostly through the woods, and met with some Indian hunters, who behaved with civility. On one large tree I saw an Indian painting that had been re- cently done. The figures were, Indians, bows and arrows, and deer with arrows pierced through the neck. The colours were chiefly black and red, upon the white ground of the tree where the bark was taken off. In passing through these woods I saw divers very fine and lofty pines; some of them were 12 or 14 feet in circumference, and, I suppose, not less than 170 feet in hight. I saw many which had been blown down, and, in their fall, had, with their roots, torn up mounds of earth of considerable height. At night I came to Batavia, and took up my quarters at the house of J. E. and his brother, where I was kindly and generously entertained. We had part of a fine haunch of venison for supper, which they told me they had bought of the Indians at 1 1/2d. per lb. and which was the regular sum paid tor the best parts of the fattest deer. In the centre of a good room, in which I slept, was fixed one of the most beautiful and curious clocks I have ever seen. It was in the form of an elegant mahogany pillar, on the capital of which were four faces. On one of them was an orrery, shewing the motions of the earth and planets round the sun. On another face were marked